Missing Universe Mass Found

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You know that missing mass of the universe that everyone's been looking for? Looks like they've found it. You can stop searching for it.

An Australian undergraduate has helped discover what has, until now, been described as the universe's "missing mass," university officials said. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working with a team at the Monash University School of Physics, conducted a targeted X-ray search for the matter and found evidence of it within three months, a Monash release said Monday.

Fraser-McKelvie, a 22-year-old undergraduate aerospace engineering/science student, helped pinpoint the missing mass during a summer scholarship, the school said.

Kevin Pimbblet, lecturer in the School of Physics, said scientists had been hunting for the universe's "missing mass" for decades. "It was thought from a theoretical viewpoint that there should be about double the amount of matter in the local Universe compared to what was observed," Pimbblet said. "It was predicted that the majority of this missing mass should be located in large-scale cosmic structures called filaments -- a bit like thick shoelaces."

Scientists had thought the matter would have a temperature of about 1 million degrees Celsius -- 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit -- and should therefore be observable at X-ray wavelengths. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie's discovery has proved that prediction correct, Pimbblet said. Her work has been published in one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific journals, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Damn kids. Search for decades and some 22 year old finds it on their summer vacation

 

[JackLuis]

Talk about HOT shoelaces!

 

[Dual_Triode]

Young minds breed fresh ideas.
Old age and treachery maintains control.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What! No pictures?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

I've heard she also found evidence that two of the shoelaces were tied together. Some atheist trying to trip-up the creator, no doubt.

 

[ParrotDee]

You know that missing mass of the universe that everyone's been looking for? Looks like they've found it. You can stop searching for it.

Damn kids. Search for decades and some 22 year old finds it on their summer vacation

What does it matter?
Now, can I have it back?

So I can tie my shoes
And get on with my life

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I didn't think that girls could do math or science.

 

[stephen55]

What! No pictures?

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/i/media/2011/05/6d48b853c845cec6c5317d1624775173_n.jpg

She's the one without a Ph.D.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/i/media/2011/05/6d48b853c845cec6c5317d1624775173_n.jpg

She's the one without a Ph.D.

No, not of her and her colleges.

The missing stuff.

I should have been born in Missouri - the show me state.

Show me the stuff!

 

[stephen55]

No, not of her and her colleges.

The missing stuff.

I should have been born in Missouri - the show me state.

Show me the stuff!

The missing stuff is described as "shoelaces".

http://www.hypebeast.com/image/2008/12/starks-checkers-shoe-laces-02.jpg

Here you are...shoelaces...

 

[Handley_Page]

Does this mean we have all have a bit of the hot filament?.
That could power a whole country, let alone a house . . . .