What is dark matter — and why does it matter?

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BeAChooser
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What is dark matter — and why does it matter?

Unread post by BeAChooser » Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:23 am

You know they have a problem when they ask this question …

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/why-dar ... r/14095220
What is dark matter — and why does it matter?
… fifty after the supposed discovery of matter.

Now obviously, the author doesn't know that dark matter is, so on to the second question. The author says that for many people, “curiosity” is “motivation enough” to find out what it is. But after spending billions and billions of other people’s dollars trying to just find out, I suggest that rationale just doesn’t cut it any more.

Next the author says that other people the reason it matters is that fundamental research leads to “new technologies that have changed our world.” But again, after 50 years and uncounted billions devoted to the investigation of dark matter, I doubt anyone can name a new technology that has resulted from the pursuit which has actually benefited ordinary people.

Then, in a related argument, the author tries the tact of claiming that dark matter research will result in serendipity … something like discovery of semiconductors and computers. But after 50 years I say that’s nothing but wishful thinking.

So finally, the author says that dark matter researchers are “trying to explain phenomena we can’t understand" ""in the spirit of Heinrich Hertz, and the early quantum pioneers" by “pulling at” “loose threads.” But I question that since if that was what they were really doing, they'd have directly addressed the published, peer reviewed work of scientists like Anthony Peratt 40 years ago ... instead of just ignoring him.

No,I think that what dark matter researchers are really doing now is milking the taxpayers for all we’re worth so they can have nice pensions, nice houses, nice cars, nice vacations, eat at nice restaurants, send their kids to nice Ivy League schools, and buy spouses and friends nice gifts.

By the way, Ben McAllister is a relatively new physicist who obviously has a vested interest in dark matter research since he works at the ARC Center of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics in Australia, which is one of MANY such organizations that have popped up the last few decades to feed the Big Bang gnome beast. And, like many young, new physicists, he fancies himself a science communicator. Just saying ...

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Re: What is dark matter — and why does it matter?

Unread post by Aardwolf » Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:50 pm

"We know that five-sixths of the matter in the Universe is made of some invisible material..."

This is what he KNOWS with no evidence whatsoever. Boxed himself into a corner he's doomed to remain in, all because of a mathematical anomaly.

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Re: What is dark matter — and why does it matter?

Unread post by BeAChooser » Thu Nov 03, 2022 5:44 pm

Aardwolf wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:50 pm "We know that five-sixths of the matter in the Universe is made of some invisible material..."
The "know" so much, yet ...

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/ho ... -AA13kisU
How much dark matter is in the Milky Way? Maybe less than we thought, China-led study finds

The Milky Way might have a lot less dark matter than previously thought, according to a China-led study on the mass of the galaxy.

Researchers from China and Australia concluded that the Milky Way weighs about 550 billion times the mass of the sun, or half of the average amount calculated by other teams, according to a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this month.

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It also indicated that there could be much less of the invisible but gravitationally bound dark matter in the Milky Way than originally estimated, she said.

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They then used two separate methods to calculate the mass of the galaxy based on data on the three-dimensional velocities and distribution of the halo stars. Both approaches pointed to the result of about 550 million times the mass of the sun.

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