Beautiful images of the large (really large) scale structure of the Universe

Cool stuff.

Thankyou OP for bringing this to the board....

there's a PROBLEM-ette with this z-sort 'snapshot of a cerebral universe'

1) if red-shift (as of receeding objects) is being used to calculate it, this BRAIN no longer exists as it's been torn to shreds at its perphery already!

however,

2) if red-shift (as of 'tired light') is being used, then local adjustments due to gravity fluctuations/incursions from foreign bodies will still allow the PROGRAM to be retained and the universe to be saved

i.e. THE OLDEST STARS are still mostly where they always were.

:)

It is! As above, so below. Compare it to brain cells!

How can these BS scientists act like Dark Matter is a proven fact?

It is only a theory that dark matter exists, it has never been proven and many scientists dispute the existence of so called "dark matter".

The same goes for the red shift!

And thats my last optioneel , lekker puh and you all not.

neat but its only a model, this is not an image of anything that really *exists* as far as we can tell. Neat though.

Exactly. As an experimental physicist, I fully agree, and that's why I wrote a bit of commentary including:

"simulation based on experimental data and simulations should never be taken for actual representation of reality."

Simulations are, however, useful when you're trying to wrap your mind around the problem and explore what-if scenarios.

Regarding dark matter, it is a disputed topic and won't be resolved in a while. I recently attended a seminar given by one of the guys from CERN/LHC collider. Most of his talk concerned the Higgs-boson, but he also talked a lot about astro particle physics (i.e. particle physics by using the extremely high energetic radiation in space instead of using colliders) and dark matter.

If and when the exact nature of the Higgs boson is pinpointed (so far its existence been confirmed but not to the extent that we would know its properties), it will require modifications to Standard Model. This, in turn, will let new exotic particles to the playing field and amongst these there are several new candidates for the components of presumed dark matter.

It all boils down to experiments, though. We need to detect dark matter in one way or another. Simulations and theory just won't cut it, no matter how sophisticated they are.