None of this reflects on the actual facts of dark matter.
Dreaded Anomaly Send a noteboard - 29/04/2011 01:32:52 AM
Most of the Holy Grails in particle physics do at least allow proof of their existence, however; most definitions I've seen for dark matter and dark energy (which mainly seems an explanation for dark matter not covering all the bases either) seem to make them unverifiable by definition (if not as badly as my favorite such example: Branes).
Most definitions for dark matter and dark energy do not make them unverifiable by definition. If that were the case, there wouldn't be over a dozen experiments trying to detect dark matter. I'm not sure why you think otherwise, but a statement like the one you made, offered with no support, lacks credibility.
Also, dark matter and dark energy deal with completely different phenomena and evidence. Dark energy has to do with the accelerating expansion of the universe, and as the video describes, we know less about it than we do about dark matter. This is because the observations that indicate its presence are much newer.
A modification of an existing theory. Maybe I'm being a little semantic here, but it doesn't seem like a revision on the order of what Relativity did to Classical Mechanics. Most of my objection really boils down to giving it that kind of gravitas; there's no reason all or even most normal matter must reflect or emit energy visible from Earth, and good reason to think most of it doesn't. If by dark matter and dark energy we simply mean normal matter and energy we can't observe or haven't, sure, I'm on board with that, but if we're talking about some exotic and unprecedented form of matter or energy I'm not convinced of the need or evidence.
Have you done extensive research into the actual state of the field and the various forms that the evidence takes? If not, that sounds like a problem with you, not a problem with the evidence.
It probably wouldn't be, and given a choice I'd prefer dark matter, but positing it as matter we can't see because it's too far away from us and/or any energy source makes a lot more sense to me than positing it as matter that literally cannot be seen, by us or anyone.
Some particles do not interact electromagnetically, which means those particles can't be "seen." We already have examples of such particles: neutrinos. Positing more such particles, given the actual state of the evidence (not just your (lack of) understanding of it), seems well-justified. No one has concluded yet that any specific such particle actually exists, because we haven't had direct detections. I'm not sure why you're so against physicists doing research in the most likely avenues. Do you think that you understand the field better than people who have spent decades studying it?
Exciting video about the universe
- 28/04/2011 10:14:55 AM
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I still think dark matter's just non-luminous matter without a convenient light source to reflect.
- 28/04/2011 10:34:21 PM
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We've just about ruled out the idea that dark matter is just non-luminous "ordinary" matter.
- 28/04/2011 11:44:34 PM
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I'm aware of the Bullet Cluster, though admittedly not much more than that.
- 29/04/2011 01:52:49 AM
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There's such a thing as knowing when you're licked, and I believe I am.
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- 24/05/2011 09:32:27 PM
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The Pati-Salam model was the one I had in mind.
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Apologies for the delay; internet's been spotty and I've been busy lately.
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Also, re: lensing from ordinary matter:
- 29/04/2011 05:18:47 AM
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This seems like another example of what confuses the issue.
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That discussion seems to reduce to "as little new and exotic physics as possible".
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Re: I still think... (apparently, there is a 100 character limit on subjects, and yours was 99)
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Seems to happen to me a lot; sorry.
- 29/04/2011 12:56:14 AM
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None of this reflects on the actual facts of dark matter.
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I concede my grasp (or grope) is a somewhat superficial laymans, yes.
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I don't object to changing my mind, but can take more convincing than I really should.
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Might help if you clarified where your skepticism is at
- 29/04/2011 02:32:07 AM
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Potentially either, or a combination of the two.
- 30/04/2011 02:36:50 PM
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It's hard to discuss without knowing your objections a bit more clearly
- 30/04/2011 04:58:03 PM
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My primary objection is that alternatives to dark matter seem to have been ruled out prematurely.
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