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Posted on 02/17/2019 8:54:27 AM PST by ETL
Everything can be explained by invoking Dark Matter.
Something Is Not Quite Right In the Universe, Ultraprecise New Measurement Reveals
Space.com ^ | February 9, 2019 | Mara Johnson-Groh, Live Science Contributor
Posted on 2/9/2019, 12:49:05 PM by ETL
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3726592/posts
Thank goodness.
Everyone was getting tired of those bloody knife fights in the faculty lounge.
Gravity is a constant.
Zwicky was the first to propose the existence of dark matter based on the rotational velocity of galaxies. Galaxies are rotating too quickly for gravity from observable stars to hold them together. Black holes don’t work, because if the matter were concentrated at the center the outside would rotate more slowly than the inside, just as Pluto orbits the sun more slowly than Mercury. Zwicky concluded that if Newtonian mechanics explained the structure of galaxies there must be some unseen matter more or less uniformly distributed throughout the galaxy holding them together that did not show up in telescopes. Hence the term, dark matter.
The nature of dark matter is not known, no compelling evidence for any particular form exists, although neutrinos and failed stars (super Jupiters) has been ruled out.
Regardless, dark matter does not explain the discrepancy between estimates of the Hubble constant resulting from different measurement techniques.
“Unbelievably (IMO),”
You don’t believe?
Once they settle the question of the Universe’s expansion, and after dozens of learned papers are read, after readers are completely astounded and flummoxed, there will appear a slight niggle, which, after further intense study, will need some very expensive equipment to uncover the truth - wherein they will find out that gravitational waves are not what they thought they were and everything will go back to square one: namely we know less than nothing about the true nature of the Universe and are not likely to uncover that truth for some millions of years - supposing the human race lasts that long ...
How do you like that for one sentence?
In the history of modern physics has there been a more productive instrument than the interferometer?
Curious: how fast do they propagate?
I would have to say that in my many years of lonely, obsessive, near-ceaseless research the disgronificator has played an even larger role.
So, does the force of gravity travel faster that light or not?
Is that the Washington state site?
There is also one in Louisiana.
Signals found by both sites indicate that gravity waves travel at the speed of light.
That is not the only mathematical “constant” in the standard model that might be a big error.
I think the next twenty years will produce an exlosion of findings that will explode the standard model. I think that model has included a greater than actual role for gravity and a lesser than actual role for other forces in the universe. One of the lesser understood and lesser admitted role is that of “charge” (as in the positive & negative electromagnetic charge) on the large scale, as applies to solar systems, star formations and the entire cosmos.
“Gravity is a constant.”?
Relative to what? Relative to an object at a point in space? Over time?
The instrumentation to detect gravity waves puts Rube Goldberg to shame. Detecting neutrinos was easy in comparison.
Unless the gravitational wave method gives them... A THIRD SOLUTION for the Hubble constant!
Totally cool!!
Thanks for forwarding on.
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