Dark Matter Scientists Observe the Rarest Event in History

Popular Mechanics ^ | April 27, 2019 | Avery Thompson

[Nifster]

“Dark Matter” is a thing made up to account for that which couldn’t be explained by a theory

[Eddie01]

That was so not cool. True, but not cool.

[Nifster]

To be fair “Dark Matter” is a fancy way of saying fudge factor

[Zathras]

Exactly.
It also funds Physicist research for those who can’t cut it in the private sector.

[mosaicwolf]

Maybe we better have one of those dark matter detectors part if the Southern border wall.

[cweese]

"Rare because there hasn't been a recorded instance of it..."

Does the Revenue Act of 1964 signed into law by LBJ count?

[pepsi_junkie]

Fascinating. As a non-scientist I will confess that at times I’ve been skeptical whether dark matter exists or if it was invented to make the models work.

Thats because it was invented to make the models work. By definition it cannot be observed directly so it's never been observed directly but this presence of immense amounts of invisible, intangible stuff is needed to make the models fit actual observed phenomena. It might even be real. But currently it's a hypothesis that explains some otherwise catastrophic model issues for celestial mechanics.

But this experiment didn't detect dark matter, it just caught a freak event that that had nothing to do with dark matter and just happened to occur in an apparatus they were monitoring hoping to find dark matter so they saw it.

[pepsi_junkie]

Dark Matter Scientists Observe the Rarest Event in History

A hate crime that isn't a hoax?

[Reily]

Trying to avoid all the implications that would occur if celestial mechanics (Newton!)is wrong!

My bet is before that happens they’ll detect something that sort of fits the current theory or a serious addendum to celestial mechanics theory will be found.

[Hootowl]

So you’re saying Xenon-124 is a Democrat?

[simpson96]

HRC saying the words “I was wrong”?

[N. Theknow]

Dark Matter Lives?

or

Dark Lives Matter?

[sparklite2]

The phallic symbol is strong with this one.

[Celtic Conservative]

The Clintons paying for their own meal?

CC

[sparklite2]

The answer is probably yes, and yes.

[layman]

I saw some dark matter once, but I didn’t say anything about it because I thought nobody would believe me.

[Nifster]

True words

[pepsi_junkie]

My bet is before that happens they’ll detect something that sort of fits the current theory or a serious addendum to celestial mechanics theory will be found.

If dark matter is proven to be a crock, they will move on to their next hypothesis: A wizard did it!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

” have spotted the decay of xenon-124, the rarest event ever recorded in human history.”

Please, the rarest event in human history would be a leftist telling the truth

[Reily]

Its happened before.