“The Phantom Universe” –There’s a New ‘Unknown’ Messing with the Cosmos

Daily Galaxy ^ | 3/9/19

[Zionist Conspirator]

Could it be . . .

. . . Pinkie Pie???

[Wuli]

I disagree. I think there is no missing matter or missing energy. What’s missing is in the math assumptions and calculations. The fact that they continue to meet their own requirements is nothing more than circular logic - of course they do, they cannot do anything but what the assumptions foretell. But the assumptions - like the Hubble constant - are simply wrong. Yet, everything - in the math - depends on such “constants” being correct.

When the math is finally corrected - maybe 100 years from now - it will be seen there is neither dark matter nor dark energy.

[fso301]

There is still no good theory explaining dark matter, however. Just speculation, or hypothesis.

Each new telescope looks farther out and reveals a mind boggling number of previously unknown distant galaxies.

Might the fact that we don't know how much visible matter is out there be the reason dark matter was theorized to account for "missing matter" our telescopes cannot yet see?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Dark matter has nothing to do with how far a telescope can see. Our own galaxy supposedly contains dark matter, as well as our local galaxy cluster. Its presumed existence is due to our inability to add up all the visible matter to equal the mass needed to keep ours and other galaxies orbiting at the rate they do. Orbital speed, you know, is a direct function of mass and distance. There is missing matter, and a lot of it—about 6 times what we can detect as stars or gas. Either that, or there is something wrong with out understanding of gravity over very large distances. It’s a mystery as of yet.

[Seruzawa]

Lol. Big Bang theory long discredited. I guess we are supposed to take the pronouncements of physicists on faith.

[yesthatjallen]

Dark Matter.

Everything in astrophysics can be explained with Dark Matter.

[ResponseAbility]

Wonder how many beers it took to come up with that one.

[litehaus]

“As the space between objects”

WHICH came first?.....Space... or...Matter ?

[sparklite2]

Alan Guth

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Given the search for a Grand Unified Theory,
I always thought Guth’s name was condign.

[Reily]

We’ll see! … maybe

[sparklite2]

Decades before I heard about Arp and his unusual galaxies, I asked a visiting astronomy lecturer about the Whirlpool galaxy’s obvious attachment to the smaller galaxy behind it whose red shift says it can’t possibly be there.

His faced reddened and he told me they weren’t going to throw away their models based on a few discrepancies. And that was that.

[Reily]

Galaxy is a pretty big discrepancy!

[sparklite2]

It’s an ongoing dilemma. In addition to dark matter and dark energy, we might need ‘light fatigue.’

[sparklite2]

The implication being that if light waves tire out, then red shifts aren’t entirely measurements of distance, and expansion of the universe may not be accelerating, with no need to conjure up dark energy at all. It’s tempting.

[SunkenCiv]

Astronomers think that a 9 percent discrepancy in the value of a long-sought number called the Hubble Constant... the two best methods used to measure the Hubble constant do not agree, suggesting our understanding of the structure and history of the universe – called the ‘standard cosmological model’ – may be wrong.

Thanks LibWhacker.

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[onedoug]

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[JimRed]

Our whole universe may be just an atom in a single cell of the Creator.

[CtBigPat]

Pinky Pie considers the rules of physics to be merely suggestions.

[samtheman]

thanks

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.