Dark matter mapped
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They MRI'd Pelosi's head?
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I thought that they were rethinking the whole dark matter thing.
Looks like a close up of Stephen Hawking's boxers, to me....
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.
Interesting.
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".
Damn! I just finished a book showing conclusively that it DOESN'T exist! Now what?
Think I'll stick with FR as my hobby until the deluge ................. FRegards
Yep. Looks like somebody threw up.
Thanks for the ping.
It looks like what you get when Algore's low flow toilet backs up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/sci_nat_enl_1168021092/html/1.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6235751.stm
Neat 3-D version