A "Filament" of Dark Matter?

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A "Filament" of Dark Matter?

Unread post by squiz » Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:52 pm

There seems to be a stream of new observations that confirm the EU hypothesis of late. Here's another.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135219.htm
A team led by Dr. Noah Brosch, Director of the Tel Aviv University-owned Wise Observatory, is the first in the world to uncover what they believe are visible traces of a "filament" of dark matter -- an entity on which galaxies meet, cluster and form.
Funny right? is dark matter visible now? :shock:
Dr. Brosch, with his M.Sc. student Adi Zitrin and researchers from Cornell University, studied an area of the sky opposite the constellation Virgo, where 14 galaxies were forming in a line. Pundits have called the line a "Bridge to Nowhere" because it seems to start and end in unknown locations. Strangely, 13 of these galaxies were simultaneously giving birth to new stars.
The odds of this occurrence are very rare, leading the researchers to believe that the galaxies might somehow be forming on this elusive filament, made entirely from dark matter, which attracts regular matter that then turns into new stars.
OMG!! the filament attracts matter and squeezes (pinches) them to create new stars.
Dr. Brosch compares the work of an astronomer to "looking for hairs of the beard of the Creator."
:lol: That's a pretty good comparison, just as much chance in finding one of Gods follicles as it is dark matter.
This line of galaxies may be one such hair. Generally speaking, matter as we know it on earth makes up only a small percentage of our universe. The composition of most of the universe is unknown -- it's either dark matter (about one quarter of the universe) or dark energy (the other three-quarters). "Our studies show that you don't need to go to the edge of the universe to find dark matter. It may be only 15 million light years away, more or less in our backyard," says Dr. Brosch.
Huh! it makes up a significant portion of the universe, but it may ONLY be a mere 15 million light years from us? I suppose that is convenient to keep it elusive so the research funds keep coming.

I'm such a cynic. ;)

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Re: A "Filament" of Dark Matter?

Unread post by MGmirkin » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:35 pm

squiz wrote:I'm such a cynic. ;)
Hey squiz, I'm right there with you! :twisted:
squiz wrote:
The odds of this occurrence are very rare, leading the researchers to believe that the galaxies might somehow be forming on this elusive filament, made entirely from dark matter, which attracts regular matter that then turns into new stars.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135219.htm

OMG!! The filament attracts matter and squeezes (pinches) them to create new stars.
Once again, the mainstream fumbles the ball! Plasma Cosmology picks it up, and runs with it!

So, now they're trying to do an end run around Plasma Cosmology by claiming that galaxies form along "dark matter" filaments by gravity "somehow." Problem is, previous studies have already shown that galaxies may form along PLASMA filaments. NOT dark matter.

(Galaxies like necklace beads)
[url]http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.as ... d=4215[url]
Astronomers have known since the early 1990s that galaxies cluster in filaments and sheets surrounding vast voids in space. Now, an international team of astronomers has found that spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, line up like beads on a string, with their spin axes aligned with the filaments that outline voids.
They can't co-opt plasma cosmology's prediction and claim it supports their "dark matter" nuttiness. I call shenanigans on the mainstream.

SHENANIGANS! :!: :evil: :!:

Can't recall the specific article where I read about plasma filaments connecting galaxies. Though, since they said in the above article that the galaxies are embedded in filaments (one assume they saw materials in which the galaxies were embedded in the galaxy surveys they studies), and dark matter is not observable, one can assume that anything ACTUALLY observed was normal baryonic matter / plasma (NOT dark matter).

We also know that the universe is a web of plasma. That much is pretty damn rock solid from observations and simulations:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020820.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubbl ... 80520.html

That they are now apparently trying to replace plasma (a known and observable "stuff") with dark matter (an unknown unobservable stuff invented due to the failure of gravity-only cosmology to account for galaxy rotation curves, which plasma cosmology has no problem dealing with and has replicated in simulation) seems to speak poorly of the present state of science (trading a known for an unknown, the observable for the unobservable, known laws of electricity and plasma for unknown "new physics" of dark matter).

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Better answers on galaxies & plasma:

(Evolution of the Plasma Universe: I. Double Radio Galaxies, Quasars, and Extragalactic Jets)
http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/downl ... 6TPS-I.pdf

(Evolution of the Plasma Universe: II. The Formation of Systems of Galaxies)
http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/downl ... TPS-II.pdf

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