Dark matter mapped - First three-dimensional picture of elusive matter throws up mystery.

news@nature.com ^ | 7 January 2007 | Katharine Sanderson

[NormsRevenge]

Dark matter mapped

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They MRI'd Pelosi's head?

[neverdem]

ping

[Tanniker Smith]

I thought that they were rethinking the whole dark matter thing.

[true_blue_texican]

I do not believe in dark matter.

[frankenMonkey]

[Trajan88]

Re: "I do not believe in dark matter."

Always fear the dark side... oh wait, you said "dark matter" ;-)

[RightResponse]

Looks like a close up of Stephen Hawking's boxers, to me....

[x_plus_one]

http://www.continuitystudios.net/clip00.html

Neal Adams holds that the expanding earth is covered by water due to the interraction of "dark matter" with light and that this eventtually leads to the elements that compose water.

If you seeded a small planet with "dark matter" and that caused it to grow, develop large bodies of water you would have to be God.....

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Looks like a map of Washington DC.

[Southack]

"The existence of large clumps of isolated dark matter and visible matter flies in the face of everything we know, says cosmologist Carlos Frenk of the University of Durham, UK."

Well, for starters...dark matter doesn't exist. For a followup, the paths of galaxies as we all hurtle ever outward from the original "point of origin" would have to be non-linear if such a grouping of so-called "dark matter" really did exist.

Galaxies would hit bumps in the clumps of dark matter. It's just silly. This is the sort of ridiculous pseudoscience that one gets when trying to rectify ToR with QM.

[muawiyah]

Dark matter is always under reconsideration, but so is the other kinds ~ here's a thought for you ~ what we are seeing here are actually OTHER UNIVERSES.

They are adjacent to our own. However, some of them broadcast in frequencies, and according to natural laws, so similar to those that prevail in our own universe, that we can see them. Others are different enough that we simply cannot detect their local equivalent of "dark matter" or "ordinary matter".

[muawiyah]

No doubt a belief shared by dark matter of you.

[ZULU]

Interesting.

[GSlob]

"I do not believe in dark matter." - Then you don't believe in hillary either. Lucky you.

[fish hawk]

It takes Gray Matter to believe in Dark Matter.

[TXnMA]

"I do not believe in dark matter."

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Unless you are a cosmologist working with valid data, your "belief" has no bearing on this discussion.

And, by the same token, "beliefs" such as the' YEC' misinterpretation of Scripture are embarassingly irrelevant to the study or discussion of cosmology.

[TXnMA]

He said, "dark matter" -- not "dark Master". '-}

[Wuli]

If your "eyes" could only "see" gamma rays, and yet you somehow managed to reach a level of science that was at least where we are, you would be theorizing/calculating that some other form of energy (like we see in the different wavelenghts of "light") must exist, and you would probably refer to that missing energy/matter as "dark".

I think calling an element of the universe we simply do not have the eyes or the technology to directly detect as "dark" gives a negative, pejorative and subjective value to something that might be real but lie just beyond our present level of ignorance.

It is actually our level of understanding that is still "dark" and not some aspect of the universe we are not yet smart enough to "see".

[TXnMA]

Ouch!