Posted on 04/20/2012 5:27:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A new study has found no trace of the mysterious substance known as dark matter around the sun, adding a twist to current theories, researchers say.
Dark matter is one of the greatest cosmic mysteries of our time — an invisible, intangible material thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe. Scientists currently think it is composed of a new type of particle, one that interacts normally with gravity but only very weakly with all the other known forces of the universe. As such, dark matter is detectable only via the gravitational pull it generates.
Astronomers first proposed the existence of dark matter to explain why stars moved the way they did in the Milky Way. It was as if extra matter was present, exerting a gravitational pull that influenced the motions of the stars.
According to widely accepted theories, the neighborhood around the sun should be filled with dark matter, with billions of these particles rushing through us every second. However, the most accurate study yet of motions of stars in the Milky Way now has found no evidence for dark matter in a large volume around the sun.
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If you have to invent something to make the model match reality then your model is probably wrong.
No, it produces the inexplicable crumbs you find under your couch cushions.
Uhoh- time for another patch on the Rube Goldberg theory of the universe that passes for science these days......
That’s like saying the tooth fairy is mysteriously missing.
George Zimmerman was stalking and pursued it, of course it disappeared.
But scientists should for anomolous hoodie shaped formations with rainbow of colors and they might rediscover the lost dark matter.
There is overwhelming observational evidence for dark matter. It doesn’t violate the Standard Model and it isn’t a fudge factor.
It’s all the years of incandescent light bulb use - it’s about destroyed the universe, The reason they turn black in spots when the “burn out” is that they finally reached their max of dark-sucking (they suck dark vs. emitting light). All that dark-sucking has depleted the natural universe of its dark matter and relegated it to dumps all over the country.
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