New look at “Einstein rings” around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate...The nature of dark matter is a longstanding puzzle.

FreeThink ^ | May 8, 2023 | By Rossana Ruggeri

[Red Badger]

Dark Matter Lives Ping!...................

[alancarp]

WIMPs need not apply. As it should be.

[MtnClimber]

Interesting article. Thanks for the ping.

[Yo-Yo]

I don’t have enough edumacation to even begin to comprehend theoretical astrophysics, but I just have a gut feeling that “Dark Matter” will soon go the way of “aether” that carries electromagnetic waves in space.

[PIF]

If the Universe was a stein of beer, baryonic matter (us) would be the foam on top of the beer.

[Raycpa]

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

[entropy12]

There is lots of dark matter in Washington DC, sucking up my tax dollars with zero benefit. Alright part of my taxes go for military (less than 20%).

[Red Badger]

... “aether” that carries electromagnetic waves in space.

It doesn’t?????.......................

[SuperLuminal]

Yawn...

Another “potential” amazing solution to a scientific question...

Typically, an indication that a group’s funding is nearing empty and the best approach to renewal is to grasp at straws and jump up & down with a “see me, see me” paper...

[hoosierham]

dark matter is jusy aether’s current name...

[dangus]

Axioms. It’s all made out of Axioms. The Word spoke the universe into being, and it’s 85% axioms.

Oh, axions? My bad.

[dangus]

Ether was supposed to communicate gravity. Dark matter explains the apparent EXCESS of gravity... Not wholly unrelated.

[odawg]

Very old belief was ether - fifth element that pervaded the universe. It was supposed to have been disproven, but maybe not.

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder what these guys talk about in the bar during happy hour?

[Red Badger]

Same as all other guys................Where to send their probes....................

[Red Badger]

Maybe Dark Matter is ether!................

[PerConPat]

Although this research won't yet end the scientific debate over the nature of dark matter, it does open new avenues for testing and experiment.

Uh-oh, here come bigger and more powerful colliders resulting in more happy particle parties and the need for ever bigger colliders etc...

[zeugma]

Dark matter is handwaving to cover up the fact that the standard model simply doesn’t describe the universe.

[Captain Compassion]

Dark matter. Undetectable. A good way to explain the unexplainable. The missing matter in the universe may be Angles.