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To: Telepathic Intruder

SO..... dark matter is what is left inside the bell jar after you pump everything else out ?


28 posted on 11/06/2014 12:03:20 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

In a way. Dark matter could possibly be made out of “ghost particles” that don’t interact other than gravitationally. In that case, the room you’re sitting in could be teeming with quintillions of then flying a few hundred miles per second. Not enough speed to escape galaxies, just cluster around them. Their density would be very low per square light year, of course, similar to dark energy. But overall, since there is a gawd awful amount of empty space compared to what we think as being normal, that adds up to a lot. And since these “ghost particles” travel below the speed of light, as they must for dark energy theories to be valid, they have mass.


31 posted on 11/06/2014 6:50:32 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: UCANSEE2

Dark matter theories I mean. And cubic light years.


32 posted on 11/06/2014 7:10:45 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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