Has Dark Matter Gone Missing?

ScienceNOW ^ | 19 April 2012 | Adrian Cho

[Getready]

Dark matter only tries to explain why things in the
universe doesn’t work the way our theories explain things.
Obviously our theories about formation and maintenance of
our universe may be flawed. Or our understanding of matter
for that matter. NO pun intended.

[BenLurkin]

Always another theory.

[qam1]

Has Dark Matter Gone Missing?

It's missing the same way the aether and phlogiston are missing

[DesertRhino]

That was so well put. Thank you. You must feel like a heretical lunatic sometimes, but that is the obvious answer. We are in a period of epic cosmological error. They will laugh at us in 100 years.

[Talisker]

Has Dark Matter Gone Missing?

No, it was never there in the first place and a lot of top physicists say so. Because the Big Bang never happened.

The Electric Universe

[DesertRhino]

“It’s missing the same way the aether and phlogiston are missing”

snicker

[bigbob]

sounds racist...

[Talisker]

It's missing the same way the aether and phlogiston are missing

Aether isn't missing.

And phlogiston was pretty close to oxidation.

But Dark Matter never existed in the first place.

[DesertRhino]

“It’s missing the same way the aether and phlogiston are missing”

snicker

[KoRn]

/mark

[hosepipe]

-OR- can Dark Matter be Honkified..

[RobbyS]

Do I recall correctly that Descartes came up with a grand theory of vortices, which did not pan out? These overarching theories always seem to stumple on the lack of supporting evidence. Maybe wait awhile. The Hubbell and its successors may bring enough data that we can build a theory on, Right now, we might as well assume that angels push things around.That way we don;t have to worry about predictions. Just say, Que sera, sera,

[Tex-Con-Man]

Where did they have it last?

[UCANSEE2]

OR.... that physics works differently on the scales we are trying to understand.

My guess is that the need for dark matter to explain certain cosmology was due to a poor estimate of the amount of matter in galaxies that cannot be seen or detected by us. It’s not invisible, it just isn’t lit up, and it’s to small.

We used to think that there were few Earthlike planets or systems. Now we are finding there are a multitude. We now know that our solar system has an inner ring of junk, and debris scattered around the periphery. Would beings from another galaxy be able to detect this ‘matter’?

Probably Not. Doesn’t mean it’s invisible, or mysterious.

I also suspect that a multitude of stars, such as at the galaxy center, exhibit a pull of gravity based on the size of the ‘ball’, which is higher than the collective ‘gravity’ of each star.

[llandres]

Bfl

[Vendome]

Kahnnn!!!!

[starlifter]

I think I saw an ad for it on Craig's List.

[dps.inspect]

Jesus] is the image of the invisible God, the first-born [prototokos] of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities [these words in Greek refer to the hierarchical angelic powers]-all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:15-17

Perhaps there are powers in higher dimensions, un-perceivable from our level, which hold the universe together.

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