It's a challenging task, but astronomers have made progress on one front: the study of dark matter and dark energy, two of the most
mysterious substances in our cosmos.
Not exact matches
In Descartes» works, God always remains respected and honoured, while man is always described as a creature of God, composed of a
mysterious mixture of
substances.
But
in Whitehead's view Bradley still remains a prisoner of the
substance - quality dichotomy: for feeling itself now takes on the
mysterious character of a
substance, about which all that can be known is its qualities.
There was just nothing appetizing to me about a thick slab of dry meat covered
in a
mysterious, sticky
substance.
If your baby gets a
mysterious, sticky
substance in your bag, all you need is some water and soap!
Remember that scene
in Baby Mama where the mom licked a
mysterious brown
substance to determine if it was chocolate or poop?
Microscopy using light and electrons revealed that nine of the mummies had hair coated
in a
mysterious fat - like
substance.
In Maxwell's time, most physicists thought that light, like sound, needed some kind of medium for transmission; the
mysterious, invisible
substance they hypothesized, called the luminiferous ether, would presumably be influenced by the motion of Earth around the sun and the movement of the solar system through the galaxy, a dynamic that stood to alter the speed of light depending on the relative direction from which that light came.
They interpreted it as the debris left behind when particles of dark matter — the
mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter
in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other
in the centre of the Milky Way.
They were trying to detect variations
in the speed of light to prove the existence of the «luminiferous aether,» a perfectly immobile, transparent, and
mysterious substance that was thought to pervade the universe.
This
mysterious substance that makes up much more of the universe than regular matter may have the right «interaction strength» to show up
in LHC experiments.
Astronomers are back
in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the
mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all.
Back then, all stars needed to form was a primordial soup of mostly hydrogen and some helium atoms, perturbed by the effects of gravity on minuscule differences
in the density of the gases, and the
mysterious substance known as dark matter.
Globular clusters are normally considered to be almost devoid of this
mysterious substance, but perhaps, for some unknown reason, some clusters have retained significant dark matter clumps
in their cores.
The results, published
in the journal Science on 27 March 2015, show that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, and narrows down the options for what this
mysterious substance might be.
To learn more about this
mysterious substance, researchers can study it
in a way similar to experiments on visible matter — by watching what happens when it bumps into things [1].
They can also help trace the amounts of invisible dark matter
in the clusters, possibly giving a clue to how this
mysterious substance behaves.
Both
substances were suggested
in the early 1980s as candidates for the
mysterious absorber, and both are interesting for the broader story of the planet.
Since this discovery 40 years ago, we have learned that this
mysterious substance, which is probably an exotic elementary particle, makes up about 85 percent of the mass
in the Universe, leaving only 15 percent to be the ordinary stuff encountered
in our everyday lives.
Recall Rye's 2012 paper
in Science Translational Medicine, which described a still -
mysterious GABA - enhancing
substance present
in the spinal fluid of some super-sleepy patients.
In their search for the pervasive - yet - elusive particles of dark matter, astronomers have tried to find galaxies with much higher concentrations of the
mysterious substance — it does not interact with visible matter at all, except through gravity, which is how scientists can theorize its existence.
Presently, dark energy — a
mysterious substance that seems to be associated with the vacuum of space itself — is pushing the universe outwards more strongly than gravity pulls
in, causing the universe to not only expand but to do so faster and faster.
Researchers have established that the toxic
substances within high - fructose corn syrup have led to «colony collapse disorder», a
mysterious disease, which has killed at the very least one - third of the honeybee population
in the United States.
One of the most common questions we get
in our GreenLite front office is about the
mysterious jar of powdery
substance on the top shelf of our product case.
According to the press release, the game is set
in the distant future and follows the story of Myrah Kale, a young woman whose life takes a sudden turn when a routine mission develops into an interstellar adventure revealing her
mysterious past and connection to the coveted
substance Morphite.
However, a couple key plot elements — that I think the «Black Swan» director intended to be
mysterious and suspenseful, don't work because they're thin
in substance yet very drawn - out.
Description: Set
in a distant future where humanity has colonized the far reaches of space, Morphite follows the story of Myrah Kale, a young woman whose life takes a sudden turn when a simple mission develops into an epic interstellar journey revealing her
mysterious past and relation to a coveted
substance called Morphite.
They will interact with each other
in sometimes unexpected ways as you seek to find your way around from point to point, collecting a few items along the way and seeking to discover why a
mysterious black
substance has started erupting from the ground.
Every offering can be renewed at the cost of Lacrima, a
mysterious substance that Librom, the forbidden book, cries out
in tear form.
However, this may not actually be all that
mysterious since the red
in the image clearly resembles the red
substance typically found inside of lava lamps.