{"id":97952,"date":"2019-10-29T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/astrophysicist-claims-dark-fluid-fills-the-missing-95-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:04:18","slug":"astrophysicist-claims-dark-fluid-fills-the-missing-95-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/astrophysicist-claims-dark-fluid-fills-the-missing-95-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicist claims \u201cdark fluid\u201d fills the missing 95% of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicist-claims-dark-fluid-fills-the-missing-95-of-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it seems we are making great strides in unlocking the mysteries of the Universe, there is a sizable hole in what we know \u2013<strong> up to 95%<\/strong> of the cosmos appears to be missing. We are talking about <strong>dark matter <\/strong>and <strong>dark energy, <\/strong>two useful, groundbreaking, but yet-to-be-directly-observed explanations for the vast majority of what exists. While there have been various attempts to pin down these ideas, inferred from their gravitational effects, a recent theory from a University of Oxford scientist claims to do away with them entirely. Instead, his model proposes something which may be even more unusual \u2013 what if the Universe is actually filled with a <strong>\u201cdark fluid\u201d<\/strong> possessing <strong>\u201cnegative mass\u201d<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter takes up<strong> 27% <\/strong>of the known Universe (<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/astrophysics\/focus-areas\/what-is-dark-energy\" target=\"_blank\">per NASA<\/a>), while dark energy, a repulsive force that makes the Universe expand, gets <strong>68%<\/strong>. Only<strong> 5%<\/strong> of the Universe is the observable world, including us and our planet. According to the model, proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiefarnes.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dr. Jamie Farnes,<\/strong><\/a> both dark matter and dark energy are unified in a fluid which has <strong>\u201cnegative gravity\u201d.<\/strong> It repels all other material away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough this matter is peculiar to us, it suggests that our cosmos is symmetrical in both positive and negative qualities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-universe-theory-percent-cosmos.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> Farnes, astrophysicist, cosmologist and data scientist who worked at Oxford at the time of publishing his paper, and has since moved on to <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty<\/a>, a leading AI company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it seems we are making great strides in unlocking the mysteries of the Universe, there is a sizable hole in what we know \u2013 up to 95% of the cosmos appears to be missing. We are talking about dark matter and dark energy, two useful, groundbreaking, but yet-to-be-directly-observed explanations for the vast majority of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97952","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}