Posted on 10/20/2024 1:01:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Is our universe haunted? It might look that way on this dark matter map. The gravity of unseen dark matter is the leading explanation for why galaxies rotate so fast, why galaxies orbit clusters so fast, why gravitational lenses so strongly deflect light, and why visible matter is distributed as it is both in the local universe and on the cosmic microwave background. The featured image from the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe highlights one example of how pervasive dark matter might haunt our universe. In this frame from a detailed computer simulation, complex filaments of dark matter, shown in black, are strewn about the universe like spider webs, while the relatively rare clumps of familiar baryonic matter are colored orange. These simulations are good statistical matches to astronomical observations. In what is perhaps a scarier turn of events, dark matter -- although quite strange and in an unknown form -- is no longer thought to be the strangest source of gravity in the universe. That honor now falls to dark energy, a more uniform source of repulsive gravity that seems to now dominate the expansion of the entire universe.
“The science is settled but they cannot even explain what dark matter is.”
I follow this a little. In regard to cosmology I don’t get the sense the physicists believe everything is settled.
There has been this huge divide over string theory with the mainstream academics still trying to push variations of the string theory with other physicists saying that it has been a decades long wild goose chase.
These guys are just scratching the surface. A few of them will say that and then others’ ego’s won’t let them say it.
Ditto. We know doctors that think outside the box about Covid were/are blackballed.
Shush. They now call pure conjecture “science”. Do not argue with your PhDed masters. You know. The same people who said that planets were a very rare occurance only 60 years ago.
Nor can they detect it. But it is necessary or else all their big PhDs are so much dog spit. So you are going to have your funding cut off unless you bow to the dogma. Much like the Popes did for centuries. Except they cut off your head instead of your funding. Their paychecks and prestige are at stake and they will destroy anyone who threatens it.
They don’t know what it is, that’s why they call it dark. It’s measurable, though. One of the possibilities is that we just don’t understand how gravity works over long distances, which they call MOND (modified Newtonian dynamics). So they admit that our knowledge of gravity may be incomplete.
What I think too.
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