Posted on 11/12/2013 6:08:01 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Without disagreeing it could be more fun to let dark matter, matter which is invisible, exist and to have started life in a dark matter pond on a dark matter planet and to have evolved..... because then we could have an explanation for all the various otherworldly phenomena.......
Just rooting for scientific anarchy.....
They would have used this collector of dark particulate matter, but Nature abhors a vacuum ....
Amen, Brother!
String Theory has such a cult following...that I figured I'd swim counter to the current, and I read this, which you may also like:
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
Most likely is that the current model, the entropic universe, is a false model. A workable model, to be sure, but not necessarily “true”. After all it doesn’t work in the chem lab. That’s called a clue. And when one of your “best” theories (multiuniverse) cannot under any circumstances be verified.... what are we paying for? Still, it ensures a never ending supply of grant money for fancy toys and fat salaries and bonuses which is the real goal.
It is nonetheless an interesting result, IIRC, WIMPS was one of the favorite candidates, maybe its the MACHOs?
“And I dont say that lightly, but with the utmost gravity...for the situation, that is.”
I see what you did there. :)
Does it matter?
As an adult I have anxiety whenever I hear a vacuum cleaner running. It’s attributed to triggers formulated in my childhood. You see, whenever Mom was pissed off she would run the Electrolux. I was very attuned to the tension and how she would clamp her lips between her teeth in the “Mom is pissed off again” expression she has, banding the wand into every table leg and piece of furniture. It turns out she hated the Electrolux because it was so heavy, but she had to have it because that’s what her sister had.
10 years ago she finally got one of those 7lb Oreck XL units... but the damage is done. Just the sound of any vacuum cleaner triggers a flight response... like when I visit home and Dad gets out the vacuum and cleans aroundnthe litter box after scooping cat turds... oh, man, I have to go outside the house... weird but it is what it is.
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