The Right Stuff too 
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And detonated 10 mins later, fabulous! Watching with Jnr in between threading and sorting out her new sewing machine (as you do at 11:40)
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Cost to send a mission to Mars to collect rocks for research = £2.7b.
Meanwhile in Gloucestershire 
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Probably about 2pm GMT, SN11 is going up, coming down, landing and staying in one piece!
That ended well
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That’s old news. Todays news is that there’s potentially a new branch in physics. A whole new fundamental force or perhaps more fundamental particles.
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Given that in order to make all our current physics theories work we need a lot of unknown stuff, no surprise we should start to discover it or things that prove the theory wrong.
That’s not quite right. We certainly have gaps in our knowledge but everything we currently know works very well, to a point. It’s beyond that point where we struggle.
If we look at dark matter or dark energy we know that there is something that creates these phenomena but we just dont know what they actually are. We can measure what they do, the effects they have etc.
Gravity is a massive challenge. We know what creates it, the effects it has. We can measure it, make predictions on what it does etc. but what actually creates it and how it links with the quantum scale is a mystery. We haven’t found the graviton for example or the theory that links Einstein with Quantum theory.
Best way to look at it is accuracy. Every time we discover something or extend a theory we are actually increasing our level of accuracy. For example Newton to Einstein to ??
Maybe one day we’ll discover exactly what dark energy and dark matter are. Or that neither exist and we need to rip up the theory and start again. The age old quote is that if you think you understand quantum cosmology, you don’t. We can test, measure, analyse and prove quantum physics to a very precise level. When that’s extrapolated to cosmology though we hit real trouble:
There’s a fundamental flaw in our understanding and hopefully we’ll find the answer. I don’t think that 85% of the universe being unobservable is likely but then we could just be looking in the wrong places or with the wrong devices. It’s a fascinating subject regardless and I can’t recommend these enough:
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Being brutally honest I know next to nothing on physics but I do believe we are on the right track. The Observational evidence is so strong but we’ve hit a bit of a wall.
It’s not about making direct observations anymore, it’s about stretching our technological limits to allow us to see if there’s more, and there inevitably is.
Dark matter and dark energy are real phenomenon but as they are beyond our current observational limits and understanding we’re stuck. Fantastic Easter egg hunt though.
I suspect its a but like an onion. We keep peeling away a layer to reveal another one below it.
I honestly wish I knew more on it. My enthusiasm does make me wonder if I chose the correct career path. Well I know I did but hey ho
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Great news. Blue Origin’s idea was dangerous and Dynetics was expensive. More cash for Spacex to work even faster with. Win win
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Yep, a fabulous day for space fans
Is this a fabulous day for space fans too?
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Absolutely! One day the petty rivalries between the different peoples on this planet will disappear. The longer we stay here the more we fight. Let’s go find the Borg for a proper scrap.
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Gene Rodenberry?
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