Scientists Discuss Space Matter

During a press briefing, Scientists discussed new findings by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX spacecraft which are helping fill holes in our knowledge about the matter found between the stars in our Milky Way galaxy. IBEX, whose primary focus has been the interaction between our solar system and what lies beyond, has directly sampled multiple heavy elements within this interstellar medium, the same materials of which stars, planets -- even people, are made.

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• IBEX
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• Briefing

[NASAtelevision]

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[JamesBerg86]

Sweet, free educational material!

[vfr802]

Incredible! We're stardust looking back at how we were formed, where we've been and where we're going, cosmologically. If we can do that, why can't there be other entities out there either doing the same thing or having already grasped far more than we have? Thank you IBEX Team and NASA!

[Thyalwaysseek]

@sbergman27 I am not anti science I am anti science establishment that work on their own agenda rather than what is best for humanity.....there is no Higgs Boson.

[sbergman27]

@Thyalwaysseek It's pretty clear that you lack the background to understand & are pushing some misguided agenda. 1 goal of LHC is to either reject or confirm Higgs. 14 TeV is definitely enough to do that. For theorists, a worst case outcome for LHC would be for it to confirm Higgs, but not SuSy or extra dimensions, and turn up nothing unexpected.

If you are as anti-science as you seem, you should be favoring confirmation. But the Scientific Method councils us to wait for the data.

[Thyalwaysseek]

@sbergman27 LMAO!!! oh yes ofcourse it is...how much bigger to they have to build the LHC?...how much longer do they have to make their equations?...They will never find it because it doesn't exist.....time to wake up.

[sbergman27]

@Thyalwaysseek In fact, the evidence is edging toward the existence of the Higgs Boson. ("God Particle" is a meaningless media term.) The Higgs may or may not exist. If it does, the Standard Model is further strengthened. Unfortunately, confimration would not give us new clues as to how to proceed with unifying G with the other forces. More exciting would be if the Higgs were rejected. We do know that the LHC will either definitively confirm or definitively reject the Higgs'.

[Thyalwaysseek]

@sbergman27 Get back in your box and continue to consume the lies of the establishment still looking for a God particle that doesn't exist...I wonder how long the equations have to be before people start realising that everything science has told us is right is actually wrong...now they are just running on ego and arrogance...Maurice Cotterell is another excellent source of information...good luck...I know whose research I would take seriously and it's not any of this crap.

[sbergman27]

@Thyalwaysseek "maybe you can do some research and start with oh I don't know...Graham Hancock"

Oh my. If you'd had any credibility before I'd say you blew it there. Graham Hancock? Talented writer. I can even see where he would be convincing to someone lacking a science education and/or basic critical thinking skills. "Fingerprints of the Gods" was entertaining. But then, so were Han Holzer's paranormal "investigations". Both works of complete fiction based upon grains of truth.

[thedeeliciousplum]

Thank you so much for sharing this vid!

[jordanpasek]

@swiessin Aw shucks..