Posted on 07/21/2016 10:47:42 AM PDT by Phlap
In an announcement earlier today, the LUX Collaboration — running the Large Underground Xenon experiment — performed the longest, deepest, most sensitive search for dark matter ever, using 370 kilograms of liquid xenon with the detector running for a total of 20 months. The final result? Not a single dark matter collision was observed.
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Well, imaginary things do tend to be invisible.
Dark Matter matters.
Dark Matter is just the name we give to the fact that the most widespread and accepted cosmological constructs don’t conform to the empirical evidence.
It’s a pooka, like Harvey.
Maybe it camouflaged!......................
There are theories that work without resorting to “dark matter” pixie dust, but the physicists and cosmologists just prefer their existing theories, because they still hold out hope they can prop them up if they find the “dark matter”.
I don’t think they ever will, since it isn’t there, so eventually they’ll have to amend their theories. Sometimes in science, though, it takes the older generation dying off before they can break out of the herd mentality and embrace new theories.
Dark matter - the great big C at the back end of the integral.
“That’s a big twinkie.”
Bingo.
If you tried to pull the equivalent of “dark matter” in a school science class, the teacher would call it a “fudge factor” and make you run the experiment again.
It’s a matter dark indeed.
How would they recognize it if it did?..............................
YES! That’s it! Some dark matter must have entered Hillary’s email server’s hard drive!
“Dark matter exists, but is invisible” = pure science.
“God exists, but is invisible” = hysterical, ignorant freaks.
gotcha.
Nothing that a couple hundred billion wouldn’t solve. Don’t we have more important things to throw our money at.
You’re exactly right. In 1993, calculations given at a large symposium showed that there wasn’t enough matter in the universe to cause it to ever contract again. Within 2 years, dark matter had been invented to enable a future contraction. A great sigh of relief was heard at that news.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, ...”
Well so much for the dark matter “fudge factor”, really seemed slick to make the equations work out.......... :^)
That’s all well and good, except that dark matter isn’t sufficient to bring a contraction. It is mostly postulated to explain why galactic rotations belie their mass.
“Dark matter exists, but is invisible” = pure science.
“God exists, but is invisible” = hysterical, ignorant freaks.
gotcha.
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