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To: BenLurkin

The whole notion of searching for “dark matter” and “dark energy” when we don’t have a proper theory of physics for the matter we know is quite preposterous.

Until someone comes up with a proper quantum theory of gravity (that couples correctly to something that at energies we’ve observed looks more or less like the standard model of particle physics somehow extended to account for neutrino oscillations) we don’t really know that “dark matter” or “dark energy” is needed to account for the anomalous large-scale observations. The quantum corrections to general relativity might take care of all the problems with just the matter we all know and love.


21 posted on 03/27/2015 8:40:40 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

Someone here once postulated that it is not matter at all — but a form of energy.


23 posted on 03/27/2015 8:55:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: The_Reader_David

Just as all the whackos were having such a good time, you had to come in with a sensible post.

Thank you very much.


45 posted on 03/28/2015 7:48:42 PM PDT by onedoug
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