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Dwarf galaxies suggest dark matter theory may be wrong
BBC ^ | September 16, 2011 | Leila Battison

Posted on 09/16/2011 3:33:06 PM PDT by decimon

Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised.

Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they do if dark matter exists in the form that the most common model requires it to.

That may mean that the Large Hadron Collider will not be able to spot it.

Leading cosmologist Carlos Frenk spoke of the "disturbing" developments at the British Science Festival in Bradford.

The current theory holds that around 4% of the Universe is made up of normal matter - the stuff of stars, planets and people - and around 21% of it is dark matter.

The remainder is made up of what is known as dark energy, an even less understood hypothetical component of the Universe that would explain its ever-increasing expansion.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: darkenergy; darkforce; darkmatter; stringtheory
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To: decimon

Ahhhhhhh........but we are made of the stuff of stars.


41 posted on 09/16/2011 5:59:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: decimon
I don't know about dwarf galaxies, but when it comes to dwarf stars, I have some favorites:


42 posted on 09/16/2011 6:00:30 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: GourmetDan
"I've not said what you imagine."

Neither did I...

Then we agree that you've said nothing.

43 posted on 09/16/2011 6:13:32 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
"Then we agree that you've said nothing."

Unless we agreed that you've said nothing.

44 posted on 09/16/2011 6:26:34 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
"Then we agree that you've said nothing."

Unless we agreed that you've said nothing.

I made so statement. What I did was call you out on some gibberish you posted. Gibberish you've yet to give any substance to.

45 posted on 09/16/2011 6:46:36 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
"What I did was call you out on some gibberish you posted."

Claiming to do what I did doesn't make it so.

46 posted on 09/16/2011 6:50:51 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
"What I did was call you out on some gibberish you posted."

Claiming to do what I did doesn't make it so.

What then were you intending to say? So far you have said nothing.

47 posted on 09/16/2011 7:10:38 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
"So far you have said nothing."

I have said far more than you can imagine.

48 posted on 09/16/2011 7:16:47 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan
"So far you have said nothing."

I have said far more than you can imagine.

No, you are like a dog chasing its tail.

49 posted on 09/16/2011 7:39:59 PM PDT by decimon
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To: RayChuang88
"I would not be surprised within 15 years some physicist revives the supposedly discarded theory of aether"

Most people don't know about the ether/aether theory, but every time I read a story about dark matter or dark energy I chuckle a little bit to myself.

"Look, I just proved that light travels in waves."
"But waves need some sort of medium to travel though."
"ummm, right.......... I know, the universe is filled with something that you can't see or detect called.......aether. Yeah, that's the ticket!"


So you may be right. My invisible friend agrees.
50 posted on 09/16/2011 8:02:04 PM PDT by Free_SJersey (Celebrate Diversity------------ Divide and Conquer?)
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To: decimon

Will the LHC be able to find the particles? Will the standard model live or die? Will dark matter be warm or cold or just right?

The tension builds and builds till no one can sleep!


51 posted on 09/16/2011 9:20:33 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon
"No, you are like a dog chasing its tail."

You are the one doing the chasing...

52 posted on 09/17/2011 6:25:17 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...

Thanks decimon.

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53 posted on 09/17/2011 10:11:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Johnny B.

Bingo.


54 posted on 09/18/2011 6:27:19 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: humblegunner

All things are possible along the Yellow Brick Road don’tchaknow.


55 posted on 09/18/2011 9:06:37 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
They'll probably just go back to cutting hair.

Only after they return ET to their job title.

56 posted on 09/18/2011 10:35:04 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Boogieman

EOTOE, Some Implications (I)
(recapitulation)

A.
EOTOE is an Embarrassingly Obvious Theory Of Everything.

In essence it states that all things in the universe, nouns and verbs objects and processes, originate and derive from the energy-mass dualism.
The origin and essence of this derivation are expressed mathematically by

E=Total[m(1+ D)] (D = distance travelled by mass since singularity)

Which suggests that the universe cycles between two poles: singularity/all-mass , and maximum-expanded/nearly-all-energy.
The “nearly” all-energy leaves behind some mass formats that begin consolidating by gravity, when it eventually overcomes expansion as the mass fueling the expansion is nearly depleted, becoming very small m multiplied by very large D = E .

B.
Thus the essence/definition of gravitation is:
“Gravitation Is the propensity of energy reconversion to mass”.

Gravitation is the “monotheism” and the “ genesis” of the universe. Singularity, at D = 0, is the very brief all-mass pole of the universe. The Big-Bang-inflation did not produce matter or anti-matter. It was the beginning of mass reconversion into energy, of increasing D fueled by decreasing m.
The conjectured gravitons, smallest basic particles, most probably do exist, but must be with mass, and each graviton must “big-bang” during the on-going expansion at a resolution of its energy-mass superposition.

This is rationally commonsensical, therefore it is scientifically probable.
Inflation started with the whole universe m shattering into fragments that evolved into, became, the galaxy clusters. The clusters expansion is fed at a constant rate by m-fuel. Since expansion accelerates, since the clusters depart from each other at an ever increasing velocity, we learn that the rate of m-to-E reconversion in the universe is constant. The accelerated expansion derives from the ever decreasing m of each cluster.

C.
Thus the essence/definition of evolution, natural selection is:
Mass formats attaining temporary augmented energy constraint in their successive generations, with energy drained from other mass formats, to temporarily postpone, survive, the reversion of their own constitutional mass to the pool of cosmic energy fueling the galactic clusters expansion.
This explains why black holes and humans, in fact all mass formats, must feed themselves in order to survive.
This explains that the essence of quantum mechanics of all processes is the detailed procession steps, the evolution details, between physical states ordained for natural selection.

D.
Thus comes to light the universe inspected progressively in greater detail.
Science reveals the universe’s nature-scope and directing drive, followed by technology studying its evolution details-aspects, followed by engineering exploitation of the attained information. This suggests the specific weight, importance, of science, technology and engineering in considering of research or enterprise plans and implementation.

Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com/

PS1:
Definitely: Dark energy and dark matter YOK! Universe’s m reconverts to E at a constant rate…
Universe expands per Newton’s motion laws, obviously…
Also, universe physics constants should vary, probably slightly, between galaxies clusters due to different clusters...
Also, the clusters formed by dispersion at inflation…

PS2:
The singularity constituents must have been the smallest elementary particles. They may be designated gravitons, but they MUST HAVE MASS. They were born at the energy-mass superposition resolution, together with the fragments that became galaxies clusters.
At expansion D increases, therefore m decreases, which per Newton mandates mass and matter acceleration. This goes on, most probably, at a constant rate of mass-to-energy reconversion, at an energy-mass resolution. And this resolution is, for each graviton, most probably in a format of a minuscule big-bang.
This is a lesser fantasy than the dark matter and energy fantasy. Such mass-energy gravitons may be omnipresent within each galaxies cluster, maintaining each cluster as a primordial Newtonian body and being the fuel-driver of expansion.
DH


57 posted on 10/12/2011 2:44:37 AM PDT by Dov Henis
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