[DannyTN]

Dark matter matters?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Dark matter was actually discovered by Fritz Zwicky in the 1930’s. Neptune doesn’t qualify since it’s not dark and we know what it is.

[Moonman62]

Pretty good article. The other bizarre quality of the aether was that it needed to be a solid because of transverse waves.

And Einstein referred to the the experiment of Fizeau rather than the Michelson-Morley experiment. I don’t know why.

[Moonman62]

Studies show that dark matter somewhat follows the distribution of visible matter, but not exactly and not always. Those discrepancies offer clues about its nature. The discovery of first one, now two small galaxies that appear to have no dark matter supports the notion of dark matter as a particle. Here’s why:

If unseen gravity (excuse me, dark matter) were some previously unknown property of physics, we would expect to see it everywhere that normal matter appears. Finding normal matter separated from unseen gravity, and unseen gravity separated from normal matter, suggests that the thing creating that gravity is an entity in itself—a dark particle of some sort.

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That’s a really good point.

[BitWielder1]

Maybe the inhabitants of the galaxies without dark matter learned to harvest it and used it all up.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

[Mount Athos]

dark matter is an inferred ‘fudge factor’ to make their equations work. Maybe it exists, or maybe it doesn’t and the equations are missing something.

[BipolarBob]

Just don’t let Malekith get ahold of the aether.

[Brown Bag Special]

If you really want to twist your noodle, the following link offers a different perspective that isn’t discussed much, though Tesla appeared to have grasped the concept.

https://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/ghosts_of_dark_matter.htm

[doorgunner69]

Definitely a racissss name for it.

[Swordmaker]

No, dark matter doesn’t exist. There is a competing cosmology that actually explains what controls the Universe far better than the gravity driven model and actually predicts the new discoveries that keep surprising, astounding, and shocking the orthodox gravity cosmologists time and time again. This cosmology does not require the invocation of magic fairy dust of dark matter and then later magic dark energy to squish and squeeze their mathematical models to fit reality. They just work and can actually be demonstrated in the laboratory and can be scaled from the microcosm to the macrocosm merely by increasing power. That cosmology is the:
Electric/Plasma Universe Cosmology — PING!

Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
ELECTRIC/PLASMA UNIVERSE PING!

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[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

They say dark matter is the glue that holds the Universe together. It blows right through everything. I watched a great show the other night on dark matter and dark energy. Gravity pushes down while dark energy pushes up basically keeping us from getting squashed.

[wbarmy]

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887

Funny thing about the Michelson-Morley experiment is hat there are some who use it to prove the earth does NOT rotate, since the light was never out of phase in any version of the experiment they tried. Einstein used that s proof that light travels the same speed, no matter what. But the earth not rotating has some weird science to it also.

[Eddie01]

How about “really really fast matter”?

[Crucial]

Dark matter exists because we haven’t the proof that enough real mater exists. By sooner or later that proof will come.

[aquila48]

“Unfortunately, none of those can account for the genuinely invisible dark matter that seems to make up 26 percent of the mass of the universe, outweighing all ordinary matter more than five to one.”

Uh??

[ADemocratNoMore]

bttt

[ThomasMore]

Is there a vacant hole in the center of the universe caused by inflation? Where is the Milky Way located in terms of the known universe? If we can see distant objects in all directions at 13.6 billion light years, does that mean we are at the center of the known universe? Did the Big Bang inflate from a single point of origin?

I love the theories and assumptions and hypothesis we make based on observation, but they leave many questions open-ended.