To: Red Badger
"Dark matter, a mysterious substance" that keeps the standard model of cosmology from being laughed out of the room.
See all those pretty spiral galaxies in all the pretty pictures? Not enough detectable mass there to keep them from flying apart as they spin - so some mysterious "invisible" mass was needed to keep careers intact. And of course it was found. Theoretically found that is.
19 posted on
04/12/2017 12:17:45 PM PDT by
Garth Tater
(What's mine is mine.)
To: Garth Tater
No, they ‘found’ just enough pretty colorful pictures to put together into a proposal for another government grant for another ten years......................
22 posted on
04/12/2017 12:21:07 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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