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originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: Realtruth
NASA Scientist Claims - Earth Is Surrounded By Strings of Dark Matter
I'm thinking this whole 'dark matter' stuff is an Occam's Razor violating desperate theory meant to correct erroneous theory/understanding!
Magical 'stuff' filling the darkness of our ignorance!
The theory will, over time, join 'Forms' and other desperate attempts to fill the darkness/ignorance with ANYTHING that can 'satisfy' for a moment!
'Dark matter' seems no different than "Goddidit"!
originally posted by: anotheramethyst
a reply to: Gothmog
no. everything we know and understand (matter, energy, antimatter) makes up 5% of the universe. 27% is dark matter, or something we have never seen before and don't understand at all but kinda sorta behaves like matter. the rest, 68% of the universe, is dark energy, something we have never seen before and know nothing about that seems to behave kinda like energy.
i'm skeptical about some of the cutting edge physics, i think it's possible dark matter and dark energy don't exist and they were postulated to fill gaps in our current theories because we're actually wrong about something else. i think physics is on the verge of some major breakthroughs and we will think very differently about the universe very soon, and then we'll spend another 50 years sorting through all these types of theories and fitting them back together. i could be wrong though
originally posted by: MrMasterMinder
He doesnt 'claim; this he 'proposes' it.
Its just an idea.
originally posted by: Davood
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: Realtruth
NASA Scientist Claims - Earth Is Surrounded By Strings of Dark Matter
I'm thinking this whole 'dark matter' stuff is an Occam's Razor violating desperate theory meant to correct erroneous theory/understanding!
Magical 'stuff' filling the darkness of our ignorance!
The theory will, over time, join 'Forms' and other desperate attempts to fill the darkness/ignorance with ANYTHING that can 'satisfy' for a moment!
'Dark matter' seems no different than "Goddidit"!
occams razor is the choice of the best explanation using the following "razor" :
the explanation that uses the least amount of assumptions with the most amount of evidence.
continual research and exploration yields more evidence, re printing a single book does not.
also, evidence does not equal proof,
hence why the word theory is used.
the theory changes as more evidence is found
originally posted by: ngchunter
a reply to: namelesss
Dark matter lensing a galaxy around a galaxy cluster. The dark matter (or whatever is causing the effects of dark matter) in the cluster is what is doing most of the light bending, the matter in the galaxies that we can see there are only a fraction of mass.
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Something is causing that, whether it turns out to be "dark matter" as it is conventionally thought of or not. Dark matter is the current leading theory. You are assigning emotional motives where there are none.
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: namelesss
I'm thinking this whole 'dark matter' stuff is an Occam's Razor violating desperate theory meant to correct erroneous theory/understanding!
Magical 'stuff' filling the darkness of our ignorance!
I don't totally disagree with you. It works as a model, but if we can't find a way to detect it, then eventually it's going to be a sort of 'black body radiation' issue.
If it actually forms in 'hairs', and I'm not sure how they're proving it is, then dark matter interacts with itself somehow. The lit would have you believe that this comes strictly from simulations. In which case dark matter hairs might be nothing more than a math pack error.
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: ngchunter
a reply to: namelesss
Dark matter lensing a galaxy around a galaxy cluster. The dark matter (or whatever is causing the effects of dark matter) in the cluster is what is doing most of the light bending, the matter in the galaxies that we can see there are only a fraction of mass.
dropcanvas.com...
Something is causing that, whether it turns out to be "dark matter" as it is conventionally thought of or not. Dark matter is the current leading theory. You are assigning emotional motives where there are none.
The 'emotional motives' are there.
Don't mistake the human for a rational creature!
Even in the lab! (See; all the science frauds and hoaxes, as evidence!)
originally posted by: ngchunter
originally posted by: namelesss
originally posted by: ngchunter
a reply to: namelesss
Dark matter lensing a galaxy around a galaxy cluster. The dark matter (or whatever is causing the effects of dark matter) in the cluster is what is doing most of the light bending, the matter in the galaxies that we can see there are only a fraction of mass.
dropcanvas.com...
Something is causing that, whether it turns out to be "dark matter" as it is conventionally thought of or not. Dark matter is the current leading theory. You are assigning emotional motives where there are none.
The 'emotional motives' are there.
No, they are not.
Don't mistake the human for a rational creature!
Even in the lab! (See; all the science frauds and hoaxes, as evidence!)
Now you're just handwaving desperately and slandering nearly every modern astronomer out there. Yes, there are legitimate frauds. This is not one of them. How dare you.