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  1. I'm not sure why there aren't any replies to this. Is it just to difficult or stupid?

     

    I thought I would pose this to a forum that usually has lots of viewpoints and generally answers as well, must have been mistaken!

     

    Even someone pointing me in the direction to answer would be helpful.

  2. Sorry if this sounds stupid, does the supposed Higgs field exist now, or could it have been present just after the big bang and imparted mass to those particles at that time? Also how does the Higgs particle get this mass just by interacting, what happens(or happened) to this field, what powers(?) this field?

  3. Wouldn't expansion be the creation of new space? Or is it just the expansion of what we see moving out through space that already exists?

     

    To the question about DE. As my layman way of thinking only provides to me, is the simple understanding that DE is a simple force that is acting on a large portion of matter(superclusters) constantly. A small amount of energy applied over a long period of time can reach very high speeds. Kinda like an ion engine. Anyway. . This small amount of energy is connected with both, the expansion and the acceleration of that expansion, since the density pressure of the universe is at a level close to 1 the expansion should logically slow to 0. Some say this would lead to a big crunch, but I would logically think that that would only happen if everything was close enough to be attracted by gravity. But I am an ameteur thinker, in that I have not been thinking about much of anything until recently. So if I have made an assertion that contradicts mainstream science then I would appreciate any correction.

     

    Thanks for the replies dudes,or even dudettes. Why does the inflation, whatever is responsible for it, only work on Super cluster scale?

  4. If dark energy pervades the universe and is responsible for inflation, and that the space between galaxies is inflating, how do galaxies collide? Would inflation not keep them apart and why does dark energy only seem to work on galactic scales? Why, or is it, not working within our solar system?

  5. The immediate impact is cultural rather than practical.

     

    Although I love the science and reading about it, it just seems a huge amount of money to spend for something that is purely interesting.

  6. Apart from understanding how the Universe works, are there any everyday practical ramifications to finding, or not, the Higgs Boson? What would finding it bring to our day to day existence?

  7. There may be an easy answer for this, but, if there is please forgive me.

     

    I have posted previously about the supposed graviton, thanks for those that replied.

     

    I understand that this graviton is the particle responsible for the effects of gravity. Is there a particle that is responsible for the effect of magnetism?

  8. It was a measurement error. The neutrinos were not traveling faster than light.

    Are neutrinos the same as gravitons? I'm don't think they are.

     

    My question really is if gravity from a black hole is that strong light can't escape does that not make whatever particles, if any, that make up gravity, travel faster than light as their effect is felt beyond the event horison?

     

     

  9. I have read a couple of previous posts about this, but have wondered if the supposed graviton, if responsible for gravity, could be actually faster than light.

     

    My reasoning for this is that if light can't escape a black hole but gravity can, does that not make gravity faster than light?

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