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Just want to point out the currently known composition of the universe: ~5% matter. The stuff you and I are made of. Most of this is H and He though, bit of Li
by Balgair 4y ago
Just want to point out the currently known composition of the universe:
~5% matter. The stuff you and I are made of. Most of this is H and He though, bit of Li in there too. And it's all mostly burning in a star. Like, 99.99999% of it.
~25% dark matter. We know little about it. We do know that it falls down though and doesn't like to touch other stuff. But that's kinda it.
~70% dark energy. We know pretty much nothing about it. It falls ... up (?!).
Considering that the stuff we're all made of is the 5%, and even then most of that is down in a deep gravity well and on fire, I think we may need to look at the other 95% of the stuff out there too if we want to find friends.
- simonh 4y agoDark matter appears to be a very weakly interacting fluid, completely unsuitable for developing any kind of structure at the local level. Dark energy is, well, energy. Also incapable of local structure. I’m afraid conventional matter it is.