Posted on 10/13/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
How do they know something exists that can’t be measured, observed, or tested?
Just think...if you could eliminate the empty space between the nucleus and electrons then there would be no fat people.
It sounds like dark matter is just a fudge factor.
Isn’t dark matter just like Hillary’s emails? You can’t see them, can’t find them, but there out there somewhere.
Isn’t dark matter just like Hillary’s emails? You can’t see them, can’t find them, but they’re out there somewhere.
Dark comedy?
It is inferred...not observed. One presupposes those cosmic structures hsve been out there so long...some undetectable force MUST be holdimg them together. There is not enuf visible or observable matter to do the trick. No thing we can observe solves the problem. Viola...it must be dark matter by elimination of all other possibilities. Maybe our assumptions are incorrect??
Matter is something...Dark matter is nothing...Nothingness...It’s the empty spaces between matter...
Neutrinos don’t have much mass but the Universe makes them in gigantic quantities. As the Universe has expanded it has stretched out the background radiation all the way to radio waves. It has also slowed down a bunch of neutrinos that use to travel near light speed, enough so that they now orbit galaxies as dark matter.
Wouldn’t even be two-dimensional people either.
>the empty space between the nucleus and electron shells of atoms...
A question. If the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant and and a vacuum is a space devoid of matter, “space” is not perfect and even the deepest interstellar void has a density of an atom per cubic whatever (meter, light year, etc).
At the atomic scale a photon traveling through a semi-transparent substance is in a “space devoid of matter”, yet the speed of the photon is less than c as given by the refractive index of the material it is passing through.
Looks to me that there is something I’m missing here.
There’s another question that has me a bit confused. If a “big-bang” is a given, (not quite sure how or if Plank Space or the Vacuum Energy field (whatever that is) could have been around BEFORE the Universe popped into existence), matter and energy being interchangeable, the sum total of each at any point in time during the existence of the Universe would be the same. A Universe a picosecond old would be really really hot and dense but also very very small, an elderly Universe tens or hundreds of billion years old would be way way colder and less dense as well as being Hugh (and series) but both would have exactly the same total amount of matter and energy.
The one thing that I have never seen factored in to the question of the missing mass is weather the massive quantity of kinetic energy from all the “Stuff” moving through space, some portion of it moving at some percentage of C, thus increasing it’s mass the closer to c it gets, might negate the need for “dark matter”
Am I all wet or perhaps just covered in quantum foam?
If that galaxy is 99.99% Dark matter, why can we see it?...................
AND it comes out FAST AND FURIOUS!.......................
Space is absence of Matter.
Matter is absence of Space........................
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