Dark Matter

Discussion in 'Pseudoscience Archive' started by kmguru, Jan 3, 2004.

  1. kmguru Staff Member

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    Since dark matter exist, and the universe is full of it (96%?) then are they in and around earth? If products made of dark matter zooms in our sky, can we see any light coming out of it (if they are natural light and not dark energy) ?

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  3. ScRaMbLe Chaos Inc. Registered Senior Member

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    Not sure if dark matter has been proven to exist, isn't it just a theory to explain extra gravity in space that cant be accounted for by conventional understanding?
     
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  5. 2inquisitive The Devil is in the details Registered Senior Member

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    The new model in cosmology has the universe consisting of about
    73% dark energy, 23% dark matter and 4% matter that we can observe. Most think there are two kinds of dark matter, some of it
    ordinary (baryonic) matter we don't see because it is not reflecting
    light and we can't "observe" it. There is also exotic dark matter
    that we don't know exactly how to describe, but I don't think they
    believe it has "anti-gravity" properties. Dark energy is the other
    stuff, or some call it the cosmological constant, or some call it
    quentessence. Nothing is known about it except for one thing.
    I'm sure you have heard of the increasing rate of expansion of the
    universe. This has been checked by different methods to verify
    the universe is indeed expanding at a faster and faster rate and
    is generally agreed upon. The problem is, how could this be happening? It should be slowing down this long after the big bang,
    and gravity, an attractive force, should be slowing the expansion also.
    But instead, it is expanding faster and faster, some of the most distant quasars are even receding from us faster than light. That is
    where dark energy has to come into play. Something with repulsive-
    gravity properties has to be causing the expansion, gravity tries to
    draw things together and something has to be causing the opposite
    effect. Nothing is known about it, only the observed effects.
     
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