Dark matter warms up: Unseen mass more 'tepid' than thought.

Nature Magazine ^ | 06 February 2006 | Mark Peplow

[PatrickHenry]

Most illuminating.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Thebaddog]

Global warming?

[YOUGOTIT]

Since they cannot see dark matter and do not know where it is, or how much there is, how can they measure the temperature. Must be because of global warming.

[Vaquero]

Galactic warming???


...Bush, Cheney, Rove, Haliburton at fault.

[trebb]

Isn't God awesome! He put something out there that we cannot see, but we can infer its presence by the effects it has; how apropos!

[Technogeeb]

Global warming?

Luminiferous aether.

[Rapscallion]

Could it be second-hand smoke from the democracks? (Only kidding)

[Noachian]

Although dark matter cannot be seen, its existence can be inferred ...

If this same phrase was applied to Intelligent Design imagine how livid scientists would be that inference was applied to existence.

[AntiGuv]

The difference is that there is empirical evidence by which to infer the existence of dark matter, whereas not only is there no empirical evidence by which to infer the existence of intelligence design, but rather all the empirical evidence suggests its nonexistence.

[voletti]

Nice article. Tks for posting.

I take issue with the "there must be about 6 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter" hypothesis.
Why 'must' it be so? Turns out that only under the above hypothesis can Scientists show that the expanding universe will at some point eventually stop and recontract. Turns out that a universe that suddenly popped into existence (at God's command?) is indigestible to our scientific brethren.

As for ID, it can neither be proved nor disproved at this point. To (dis)prove it, evidence from 'outside' the universe will be needed, which by construction, is impossible to have.

[carumba]

...dark matter being made of some kind of weakly interacting, massive particles (WIMPS).

Schwarznegger: GURLY matter.

[AntiGuv]

Turns out that a universe that suddenly popped into existence (at God's command?) is indigestible to our scientific brethren.

Ever heard of the Big Bang?

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Hot milk glow-bull warning for the gullah bull

[voletti]

Precisely what I'm talking about.
The Big bang is nothing but the universe popping into existence.
What existed before the big bang? The dark matter hypothesis is nothng but an attempt to potray the expansion and contraction of the universe as some kinda endless birth and death cycle at a cosmic scale so that the idea of a creator intervening can be put aside.

Have a nice day.

[trebb]

The difference is that there is empirical evidence by which to infer the existence of dark matter, whereas not only is there no empirical evidence by which to infer the existence of intelligence design, but rather all the empirical evidence suggests its nonexistence.

I don't know - the fact that we can observe a pretty universal belief in God seems to be empirical to me.

[Jack Hammer]

Anyone who thinks that dark matter cannot be seen has never been to a dairy farm.

[doc30]

Dark matter heating up - Bush's faulkt for not signing Kyoto!

[CPOSharky]

And the end result is startling: it seems that dark matter is whizzing about at some 10,000 °C .

Isn't 10,000 °C kind of hot to use the term "tepid" in the headline? Matter at that temperature should be emitting light at about the color of our sun.

[VadeRetro]

WIMPs rule! Who knew?