Bionic Matter?

[Haz]

Ok i heard m aviation teacher/ex-maths teacher/teacher-friend talking about 'Bionic Matter.'(spelling?) He described it as the black stuff that space is made up of, instead of being a vacuum. Have you heard of this before? If so is there Bionic Matter within an artificial vacuum? and can this matter vibrate? Thanks ^_^ ~Haz

[nina]

Hmm...let's see...where should this topic be moved to. Any takers?

[Haz]

Philosophy? Extended Discussion?

[nina]

Yes. Yes. Extended discussion, but damn, I don't have mod powers in this forum.

[Haz]

*calls upon the moderator of the forum who is <fill in the moderator of the forum here>*

[nina]

Don't worry about it, continue discussion on Dark Matter. hehe.

[jacobo]

i'm thinking philosophy actually. i'll move it then ask my roommate... he's one of the astro-biology guys. but he's also retarded and a slob... so we'll find out. now i'm off to class with 6 shots of jack d in me and a bottle 50/50 jack and coke! yay!

[baconmastermind]

Wouldn't it be weird if it turned out that this bionic matter stuff tasted really good?

[bradybaker]

If you're talking about dark matter, current theory and observation says that it does exist in huge quantities. It acts as a repulsive force against gravity, this explains why the universe is not only expanding, but the expnasion is actually speeding up. Observational evidence tells us that the Universe is approximately 75% dark energy, 20% dark matter and 5% "ordinary" matter and energy.

[Haz]

ah n not dark matter, the matter pulling (attempting) the universe together. it's a different mater that we can't see or touch, only different to dark matter....

[Stalker]

Originally posted by bradybaker If you're talking about dark matter, current theory and observation says that it does exist in huge quantities. It acts as a repulsive force against gravity, this explains why the universe is not only expanding, but the expnasion is actually speeding up. Could you show me the source of that definition of dark matter? I ask because previously the definition has been low- or nonradiating matter, thus "unseen" and therefore called dark matter. Haz: Perhaps you're talking about all the particles being created and destroyed continuosly in vacuum?

[bradybaker]

I thoroughly apologize for my error, I got my dark matter and dark energy confused for a second. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archiv...ark-energy.html You are correct in saying that dark matter is low/non-radiating and therefore virtually undetectable. It adds mass to the universe, increasing the gravitational pull inward (not accelerating expansion as I mistakenly suggested).

[Joseph_Stalin]

Whatever we call it, it's still sketchy in the normal sense of physics. We don't 'float' in it, since there no mass to sustain a gravity of sometime (well, to be accurate, very little, and this is in debris and the like), and it doesn't seem to indicate anything other than what we've been studying and observing. It would take literally billions of variables and experimental conditions to see the true extent of the void.

[bradybaker]

What's sketchy....dark energy, dark matter, virtual particle or bionic matter?

[Peregrinus]

Originally posted by Joseph_Stalin Whatever we call it, it's still sketchy in the normal sense of physics. We don't 'float' in it, since there no mass to sustain a gravity of sometime (well, to be accurate, very little, and this is in debris and the like), and it doesn't seem to indicate anything other than what we've been studying and observing. It would take literally billions of variables and experimental conditions to see the true extent of the void. Are you talking about dark matter, dark energy, or this \"bionic matter\"? What has lack of \"floating\" got to do with lack of gravity, and what \"doesn't seem to indicated anything other than what we've been studying and observing\"? Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying. Originally posted by Haz Ok i heard m aviation teacher/ex-maths teacher/teacher-friend talking about 'Bionic Matter.'(spelling?) He described it as the black stuff that space is made up of, instead of being a vacuum. Have you heard of this before? If so is there Bionic Matter within an artificial vacuum? and can this matter vibrate? "Bionic matter" sounds like it's somehow orgranic . In my three and a half years of studying physics at university, I've never heard of anything remotely like it-- no theory or observatoins that would indicate a previously unknown form of vibrating (possibly organic) matter. Besides the fact that the definition of "vacuum" is "space unoccupied by matter" and having it filled with "bionic matter" would clearly violate this, the temperature of empty space is about 4K or -269 C and the density of ordinary matter is between 5 and 6 hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. It's not a very hospitable place for living tissue, at least the carbon-based variety with which we are familiar. The only thing remotely similar that I can think of is zero-point energy, which is the (absolutely huge) lowest energy state of otherwise empty space.

[dream-scape]

Does anyone know or has anyone defined what "bionic matter" is? Google only returned 2 hits for the phrase "bionic matter" in which one had only this to say about it: Gradually the (western) universe has evolved from being composed of gods to God to clocks to steam machines to computers to bionic matter. Now we must learn to think organically (in terms of (semi-?)closed ecologies of interconnected chaotic systems).[/b]

[Lucid]

Thanks for that Zero-Point link, I have herd of this for some time but was unclear on the principles behind it. Excelant article. Lucid