{"id":85500,"date":"2018-12-05T02:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bringing-balance-to-the-universe-new-theory-could-explain-missing-95-percent-of-the-cosmos"},"modified":"2018-12-05T02:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:42:58","slug":"bringing-balance-to-the-universe-new-theory-could-explain-missing-95-percent-of-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bringing-balance-to-the-universe-new-theory-could-explain-missing-95-percent-of-the-cosmos","title":{"rendered":"Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bringing-balance-to-the-universe-new-theory-could-explain-missing-95-percent-of-the-cosmos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses \u2018negative mass.\u201d If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Our current, widely recognised model of the Universe, called LambdaCDM, tells us nothing about what dark <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">matter<\/a> and dark <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> are like physically. We only know about them because of the gravitational effects they have on other, observable matter.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new model<\/a>, published today in <i>Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/i>, by Dr. Jamie Farnes from the Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, offers a new explanation. Dr. Farnes says: \u201cWe now think that both dark matter and dark energy can be unified into a fluid which possesses a type of \u2018negative gravity,\u201d repelling all other material around them. Although this matter is peculiar to us, it suggests that our cosmos is symmetrical in both positive and negative qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-universe-theory-percent-cosmos.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-universe-theory-percent-cosmos.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses \u2018negative mass.\u201d If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}