Serious blow to dark matter theories? New study finds mysterious lack of dark matter...

http://phys.org ^ | 04-18-2012 | Provided by ESO

[Lazamataz]

If there’s as much “dark matter” in the universe as these scientists postulate my lawn should be covered with the stuff.

It is. That's not dog poo.

[Red Badger]

‘Dark Matter’ is just a label, a name, to explain what the scientists don’t know...........The 21st century equivalent of ‘Aether’..............

[samtheman]

I’ve thought about that too. But obviously it’s not a possibility under consideration... and they are the “experts”...

[Billthedrill]

Next up, my Really Really Dark Matter Theory. I need a grant.

[EternalVigilance]

Lots of words to say “we really don’t know much.”

[Red Badger]

So far they have come up with Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

I guess the NEXT theory will be Dark Gravity.............

[Lurker]

Naw, it’s there alright ~ lots of it. We just haven’t figured out how to perceive it

So let me get this straight. This "dark matter" stuff exerts enough gravitational energy to keep the Universe from expanding forever but: It never seems to hit Earth even though Earth has it's own gravity. Somehow in all the billions of years Earth has been in existence they can't scrap ANY of the stuff off of ANYTHING. It's totally invisible except for it's gravitational influence. It emits no energy of any kind even when it's heated to millions and millions of degrees around stars and stuff. The dark matter theory has as much validity as AGW.

[techcor]

First “they” come for the dark matter. And then “they” come for the rest of us.

[MNDude]

LOL! That’s awesome!

[Red Badger]

But in science, being wrong is bad for you career..........

[The Cajun]

Well dang, how could that be!
I mean we know everything about mass, gravity, the speed of light and the laws of physics here,
so they just have to apply precisely to the rest of the universe on a macroscopic scale………Right?

[SMARTY]

Where ever it is, when “O” finds it, he’ll tax it!

[MrB]

Didn’t they come up with the theories of “dark” energy and matter in order to fudge the calculations that disproved some pet creation theory, like the Big Bang?

There are a couple more problems, I’ve heard, as well.
Where are the monopole magnets and the missing anti-matter?

Why can Hubble “see” further away, light-years-wise, than they estimate the universe is old?

[Billthedrill]

Well, I’m holding out hope. “It’s out there, I just can’t find it” is a perfectly viable state. It works for my car keys. And my sex life.

[djf]

Yup.

Purely a fudge factor.

[Bigh4u2]

This guy took it...

[Aevery_Freeman]

Ah yes, the aether that was so dramatically proved to exist by the Michelson-Morley experiment.

A fiasco soon to be eclipsed by the failure to discover the "God particle" a.k.a. the Higgs boson.

I love hubris! It's what makes our _resident so special.

[Baseballguy]

The more we understand the less we know. I love my faith cause it has all the answers.

[Red Badger]

Where are the monopole magnets and the missing anti-matter?

Magnetic fields can send particles to infinity:

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-magnetic-fields-particles-infinity.html

[djf]

About a year ago, I stumbled on an article, can’t remember where exactly.

They said there had been further, much more refined runs of the Michelson-Morley experiments and that they had indeed showed some kind of cosmic drift, or Zero-Point energy field related to spatial geometry, thus contradicting GR.

But once again the effect was so small you can’t hardly put your finger on it...