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To: Telepathic Intruder

The need for dark matter comes from the speculation that galaxies don’t have enough mass in them to keep the galaxy together.

How much mass does a tornado have ? How is it able to pick up immense objects ?

Space is full of small dark particles of dust that cannot be detected. We don’t know how much of it there is. Is that some of the missing ‘matter’ ?


8 posted on 11/05/2014 5:30:34 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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"How much mass does a tornado have ? How is it able to pick up immense objects ?"

Momentum of the tornado and the surrounding air. Space is mostly vacuum, however, so it's a different problem. Something is holding galaxy clusters together beyond just the gravity created by visible matter, however. We call that "something" dark matter. And that's all we know for now.
11 posted on 11/05/2014 5:48:39 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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