Dark matter 'beach ball' unveiled!

[kc0itf]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8444038.stm

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[junglelord]

I say its full of "Hot Air"....puffed up on its own imagination...a victim of the religious politics of "science".

[jjohnson]

While inference is a useful tool in the right minds, this goes begging IMHO. "Dark matter only interacts with ordinary matter through gravity. That's why you can't see it. Doh!!" Then why does the posited dark matter get all scrunched up in a glob centered on the galaxy, rather than getting spread out in precisely the same patterns as the rest of the distribution of matter in the galaxy? Why isn't it "with us always", everywhere? Why does dark matter shun our countrified yokel matter out here toward the outskirts of Milky Way Town and pull in like a water drop on Teflon so that it can sit in the middle and CONTROL the galaxy's dynamics from there?

Does the Standard Model with dark matter claim that it has a qualitatively and quantitatively different gravity than our normal matter? Like, does it interact more strongly with other dark matter and not so strongly with normal matter? I haven't seen that claim yet, but if they want to make it, they'll have to pay me royalties for bringing it to their attention deficit. If this is where they're going, they are going to open up an even bigger, stinkier can of worms about gravity, a subject about which few scientist yet have the grace to say, "we just don't have any idea what gravity is or how it works at any fundamental level. It doesn't even tie in with the rest of the universe at a quantum description level, and we don't know whether it ever can or not. All we have is observations and engineering rules for predicting its observable effects, and we are constantly having to invent tweaks and corrections to make those provisional rules work at all."

Based on both early observations by Birkeland and Alfvén and Maxwell and Langmuir and others. and the qualitatively better and broader-band observations flooding in in current times, I'd say that the Standard Model's explanations and model-based inferences are clearly becoming less plausible. -and less tenable. While the EU/PC views are increasingly in the ascendancy.

[solrey]

Surprise (for mainstream), again, the magnetic field at the center of the Milky Way is 10 times stronger than the rest of the galaxy.

"This research will challenge current thinking among astronomers," Dr Crocker says. "For the last 30 years there has been considerable uncertainty of the exact value of the magnetic field in the centre of the Milky Way. The strength of this field enters into most calculations in astronomy, since almost all of space is magnetised," he says.

"Challenge current thinking", now how many times have we heard this before?
They know that 99% of the universe is plasma and that almost all of space is magnetised. Plasma is a very good conductor, electric current (charged particles in ordered motion) generates magnetic fields.

Dr Jones says the findings will affect diverse fields, from star formation theory to cosmology.

It affects PC/EU theory by confirmation. How's that gonna affect your mainstream fields again?

"If our Galactic Centre's magnetic field is stronger than we thought, this raises additional questions of how it got so strong when fields in the early universe are, in contrast, quite weak. We know now that more than 10% of the Galaxy's magnetic energy is concentrated in less than 0.1% of its volume, right at its centre," he says.

As it should be if the idea of a ball of plasma contained in a Bennett pinch at the middle of the galaxy is correct.

Hmmmm, think that'll have any effect on their theories of "dark matter"?

[jjohnson]

News Flash! This just in:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) Television honors went to ... "The Big Bang Theory" for top comedy.

This reviewer can only agree with the wisdom of the people regarding the timeliness and appropriateness of this richly deserved award. Mainstreamers take note, despite how seldom you take note that your thinking is even being challenged. Now just about everybody is in on it!! Looks like it's "wait again for next year for "The Black Hole Theory".

[seanoz]

Actually jj, that show is damn funny, they really do take the mickey out of science and scientists, ESPECIALLY the mainstream competitiveness and brinkmanship that is at any cost for exposure and fame, the play on the theories is pretty good too, if a bit misguided, but hey, they are drawing from a truly misguided theory anyway, so it is to be expected, but overall a VERY funny and enjoyable show, even for me who cannot stand the insanity proffered daily from the mainstreamers.

Sean.

[jjohnson]

Well, Sean, I did think that the award with the name was pretty damn funny. Guess I'l'l have to visit the wasteland to enjoy the real thing!

[mharratsc]

Actually jj, that show is damn funny, they really do take the mickey out of science and scientists, ESPECIALLY the mainstream competitiveness and brinkmanship that is at any cost for exposure and fame, the play on the theories is pretty good too, if a bit misguided, but hey, they are drawing from a truly misguided theory anyway, so it is to be expected, but overall a VERY funny and enjoyable show, even for me who cannot stand the insanity proffered daily from the mainstreamers.

Sean.

To corroborate Sean's intuitive and astute observation above, here is a quote from a scientist from the article "The first glimpse of dark matter?" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8420089.stm):

Commenting on why he felt the scientists had made the announcement before they could confirm their findings to be dark matter, he said that there was a competition among scientists to be the first to make the discovery.

"This is one of the most important problems in science," he told BBC News.

"We only have a glimpse here, but it's so tantalising that you couldn't go to bed without telling the whole world about it."

Yep...


Mike H.