Butter on the ceiling: they assure that the universe is a ball of fat

The chemist Tim Schmidt explained that in the Milky Way, there are 10 trillion tons of grease or aliphatic carbon which equates to 40 trillion trillion tons of billions of butter breads, reports the website BBC World .

But it is not a question of making toast: Schmidt explains that the fat " is dirty, probably toxic and only is formed in the environment of the space interstellar ", and in his laboratory, of course.

"You would not want to spread this space fat on a slice of bread!", Explains the scientist

Moreover, if a vessel with windows was sent to the interstellar space he would return to Earth with the windshield covered with a sticky substance .

But carbon is essential to the development of life, so scientists seek to determine how it is According to Schmidt, there are about about 100 fatty carbon atoms per million atoms of hydrogen, accounting for between one-quarter and one-half of the available carbon in the "great life cycle".

The other half of the carbon is in the pure state in the space between the stars, and the remaining percentage is aromatic similar to that found in the naphthalene balls . Scientists will seek to specify how much of this type there is in the universe.

Schmidt, of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, stated the theory with colleagues from the Turkish Ege University. who built a laboratory with the same properties as interstellar dust.