The warm-hot inter galactic medium, or the Whim ought to appear as a dim outline in the cosmic microwave background, scientists say. Above, a map of relic radiation from the big bang, composed of data gathered by the Planck satellite.
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It is one of cosmology’s more perplexing problems: that up to 90% of the ordinary matter in the universe appears to have gone missing.
Now astronomers have detected about half of this missing content for the first time, in a discovery that could resolve a long-standing paradox.
The conundrum first arose from measurements of radiation left over from the Big Bang, which allowed scientists to calculate how much matter there is in the universe and what form it takes. This showed that about 5% of the mass in the universe comes in the form of ordinary matter, with the rest being accounted for by dark matter and dark energy.
Dark matter has never been directly observed and the nature of dark energy is almost completely mysterious, but even tracking down the 5% […]
I have been following the “Electric Universe Theory”, otherwise known as the “Plasma Universe Theory”. It has what seems to me a more fundamentally provable theory about the Universe and how it operates, which eliminates all the problems of the currently accepted paradigm and becomes stronger with every new finding from our probes and stronger telescopes. I would accept the “Electric Universe Theory” before the impossible to prove theory of the “Big Bang”, “Dark Matter”, and “Dark Energy” theories, and is testable in the laboratory and can be scaled up to the entire Universe. Plasma seems to be the key element which is overlooked by all the other theories which use the word gas to explain something which is not a gas at all, and the electricity flowing through the plasma can be a better explanation for al the things we “see” with our tools we use today.
P.S. I should add here that it is very easy to understand now that there are four states of matter: the first is Plasma (made up of electrons and protons), the second is the gaseous state, the third is the liquid state and of course the forth is the solid state. This is easy to prove if one looks closely at all the data.