Just south of Orion

Researchers from the University of Minnesota, using the Wilkenson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, discovered the ultimate NOTHING, or VOID, in a region of the sky either near or very close to the constellation Eridanus and just south of Orion.

They have discovered a "gargantuan" hole completely devoid of the following items that seem to be found in abundance throughout the universe.

galaxies
stars
dark matter

This "gargantuan" void is about a billion light years across and the researchers have stated that "they have no idea why it is there."

That's a rather funny part of the story.....like what did they think would be there to explain it....
A "GARGANTUAN" SIGN?

THIS IS A LARGE VOID IN THE UNIVERSE
STAY OUT!

The researchers, headed by Professor Lawrence Rudnick and his colleagues Shea Brown and Liliya Williams, also said that a void this large has never been discovered and in fact no one even "expected" to find something like this.

NO ONE?

They also say that what they've found is not "normal."

NOT NORMAL?

Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellites have been around since.......what? The late 1990's

It's not like we've been using Microwave Probe satellites since Galileo or Copernicus.....so discovering things in the Universe that are not NORMAL seems rather presumptuous to me.

And NO ONE thought there might be areas of the universe that haven't been filled with something?

NO ONE speculated that perhaps the Universe had areas of expansion available, when I've always heard that the Universe was always expanding.....and I'm an idiot.

One of the other funny things the Minnesotans said was....."The region appeared to lack DARK MATTER."

Dark Matter, or Dark Energy depending on your school of thought... is usually detected by measuring gravitational forces, because of course.... IT.... cannot be seen directly.

My question is ....when you measure gravitational forces in order to detect DARK MATTER obviously something is allowing a gravitational force to be measured. That something normally would be either Gases or some other molecular structure such as a Star or an entire Galaxy.

COULD THIS REGION TURN OUT TO BE THE NEXT GENERATION OF DARK MATTER?

THE BIG KAHUNA OF DARK MATTER?

THE KING OF DARK MATTER?

THE ULTIMATE DARK MATTER?

THE BOSS OF DARK MATTER?

IF SO....THEN THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE HAS A BIG FREAKIN PROBLEM.

and since you and I are temporary residents of this Universe....it becomes our problem too....

Of course realistically speaking, it's probably going to take 1 or 2 million years for that THING just south of Orion...to get into our face.
But our children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's (this could take awhile to get to 1 or 2 million years) but relatives are relatives and somebody needs to think about their future.

Obviously I have some issues with
DARK MATTER
and what we don't know about it
and yet we are trying to create
one
at the CERN facility underground in Europe.

How strange to think that THE THING just south of Orion is the ultimate big daddy of Dark Matter and IT is watching our experiment at the CERN facility just hoping that we can make a little DARK MATTER baby

and then the CONNECTION will be shorter between the two.....and
BIG DADDY DARK MATTER and LITTLE BABY DARK MATTER
CAN UNITE
AND
then finally we can check out what happens when our molecular structure gets absorbed by something that absorbs all energy and all light.

DARK MATTER FREAKS ME OUT......as I am sure you can tell.

On the other hand....perhaps a VOID in the Universe just simply makes sense because the Universe needs room to expand.

Those wacky kids from The University of Minnesota have a long football season ahead so of course they've got to be looking somewhere else.

You can bet your ass that USC kids aren't looking at anything....other than September 1....vs Idaho.

Real Dark Matter would be Idaho upsetting the Trojans.

The Universe would have entirely new problems to deal with if that happened.

AND OBVIOUSLY I'M GETTING EXCITED ABOUT COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND THAT'S ONE OF THE WAYS I DEAL WITH MATTERS THAT ARE VERY VERY VERY DARK.

I'm sure you have your own special ways to deal with the mysteries of the Universe.

Just check out that area.... south of Orion.....and note......NOTHING.

MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC ALEVEY