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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
The article actually says:
And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven't yet discovered, and have therefore labeled "dark."
Actually, it's called "dark" matter because it does not interact with electromagnetic fields (like light). Our preception of the universe is primarily through electromagnetic radiation or the effects of electronic interactions (touch) and, ultimately, sound. (Sound is only explainable in terms of electronic properties of matter.) Neutrinos were originally "discovered" in the negative: to account for the missing mass/energy and momentum in subatomic particle interactions. "Dark" matter was never any more mysterious than positing particles that behaved in some ways like neutrinos, but weren't like neutrinos, at least like the ones we know about. (Dark matter was "discovered" in an attempt to account for gravitational effects not explainable by the observed mass in the universe, i.e., discovered in the negative.)
43 posted on 11/04/2010 1:12:09 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Go Packers!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

***And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven’t yet discovered, and have therefore labeled “dark.” ****

Does it matter? Jessie and Al got upset over the Black Holes in space! Won’t they see something evil in the word “Dark Matter”?


95 posted on 11/04/2010 4:29:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Actually, it's called "dark" matter because it does not interact with electromagnetic fields (like light). ....................................... "Dark" matter was never any more mysterious than positing particles that behaved in some ways like neutrinos, but weren't like neutrinos, at least like the ones we know about. (Dark matter was "discovered" in an attempt to account for gravitational effects not explainable by the observed mass in the universe, i.e., discovered in the negative.)"

IMHO, nothing is the matter. It's all in their collective empty heads.

100 posted on 11/04/2010 7:35:01 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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