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| Image Source: Argonne National Laboratory |
Topics: Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Physics Humor, Star Trek, Theoretical Physics, Quantum Cosmology
This is the title of the original post, I kid you not! There are apparently a few Trekkies at Argonne National Lab...\\//_
Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory.
The simulation, run on the Titan supercomputer at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, modeled the evolution of the universe from just 50 million years after the Big Bang to the present day — from its earliest infancy to its current adulthood. Over the course of 13.8 billion years, the matter in the universe clumped together to form galaxies, stars, and planets; but we’re not sure precisely how.
These kinds of simulations help scientists understand dark energy, a form of energy that affects the expansion rate of the universe, including the distribution of galaxies, composed of ordinary matter, as well as dark matter, a mysterious kind of matter that no instrument has directly measured so far.
Argonne National Laboratory:
Researchers model birth of universe in one of largest cosmological simulations ever run
Louise Lerner
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