"NO DARK MATTER IN OUR GALAXY"

[jacmac]

While looking for information on plasma from the standard model world, I came upon this book: DARK MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE, by Bahcall, Piran, and Weinberg, on this web page:

http://www.worldscibooks.com/physics/5536.html

Reading the Introduction gives us this gem:

"I have chosen to omit from this edition the lectures that I gave at the Winter School on the topic of dark matter in the Disk of our Galaxy. The mathematical techniques described in the omitted lectures have been used by J. Holmberg and C. Flynn (see MNRAS, 313, 209 (2000) and astro-ph/0405155) to show, using recent Hipparcos observations that are a great improvement over earlier data, that there is no appreciable amount of dark matter in the Galactic Disk. There is a lesson in this development which is useful for all students (and researchers) of astronomy and astrophysics: theoretical inferences are — at best — no better than the observations on which they are based."

When your pro dark matter mathematical techniques are used to show your dark matter does not exist, it must be time to get some new mathematical techniques, or at least take that part out of the book.

Reading on explains part of the problem; there is a conspiracy against us.

"Chapter 3, by J. N. Bahcall and S. Casertano, describes one of the most persistent puzzling aspects of dark matter. There is a conspiracy between dark matter and luminous matter to arrange themselves so that the transition in a galaxy from domination by dark matter to domination by luminous matter produces no easily observable features. The reader can see the conspiracy at work in the measurements reported in Chapter 2 for NGC 3198."


Jack

[webolife]

So I summarize that as:
1. We can't see dark matter.
2. In transition from or to other states, it leaves no traces of itself.
3. The math designed to explain or detect it doesn't work.
4. There is no dark matter in our galaxy.
5. Ergo: There is probably no dark matter in the universe... or who needs it?

[diefans]

Hello,

there is a brand new study from the university of Bonn/Germany:

"Local-Group tests of dark-matter Concordance Cosmology - Towards a new paradigm for structure formation?"

Very short: they found that "dark matter" cannot account for the observed phenomena, thus the community has to adopt newtons gravitational law for large scale phenomena and Einsteins general relativity theory has also to be revised...

http://www3.uni-bonn.de/Pressemitteilungen/158-2010 [german]
http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/1006.1647 [english]
http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/pdf/1006.1647v1 [english pdf]


all the best
O