No Shadow From the Big Bang?

ultracool writes "In a finding sure to cause controversy, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found a lack of evidence of shadows from "nearby" clusters of galaxies using new, highly accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background (WMAP). Other groups have previously reported seeing this type of shadows in the microwave background. Those studies, however, did not use data from WMAP, which was designed and built specifically to study the cosmic microwave background."

Existensial?

[Kell Bengal]

How can the big bang cast a shadow if there's nothing outside thereof on which to cast it? Now that you've centered yourself, you're sure to win that corporate mini-golf tournament.

Dark shadows

[Anonymous Coward]

What happens when you mix dark energy with dark matter?

Re: Dark shadows

[tanveer1979]

What happens when you mix dark energy with dark matter?

A B-Grade Sci-fi thriller

Re:In other news....

[maxwell demon]

I don't know how you imagine what god blowing snot out of his nose looks, and especially sounds like. I think that event is quite well described by the term "big bang".

Re:Grrrrrr!

[Gleng]

At this point in history, evolutionary biology is a certainty in the way that gravity is a certainty.

Heretic! Don't you know that there's no such thing as gravity? All things are held in place by God's will, so that His flock may live without fear of being smitten by flying boulders.

(Excepting brimstone obviously.)

Big Bang

[ms1234]

This is slashdot, readers here have never experienced a big bang.

Re:Grrrrrr!

[Kjella]

Heretic! Don't you know that there's no such thing as gravity? All things are held in place by God's will, so that His flock may live without fear of being smitten by flying boulders.

Honestly, even if I believed in God I'd be pretty disappointed if I found out God spends his time micromanaging gravity. You'd think he'd create a rule and move on to more important things.

Re:Grrrrrr!

[Gleng]

Honestly, even if I believed in God I'd be pretty disappointed if I found out God spends his time micromanaging gravity. You'd think he'd create a rule and move on to more important things.

Wouldn't it be a pretty amazing feat to be able to micromanage every single gravitational interaction in the entire universe? In real time?

That would be a proper god.

Re:Mini-bangs?

[charlesbakerharris]

I hope I didn't mess that up too badly with poor grammar.

No, it was the "not having any clue what the Big Bang theory is in the first place" where you went wrong.

Re:Big Bang

['nother poster]

The bible is a divinely inspired document that is without error. If it says a day, it means a 24 hour day. The translators that translated it from Hebrew and Aramaic to Greek and then to Latin were inspired and guided by the hand of god. Over time lies and heresies crept into the bible due to the nature of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church turning from god and worshiping Mary and the saints. The translation from Latin to English by the commission set up by King James was especially inspired and removed the lies that had made their way into the bible. All other translations are wrong. So sayeth the nut that has a cube down the aisle from me.

Actually you're kind of right

[BitterAndDrunk]

There's no such thing as gravity - the earth sucks.