Dark Matter Seeking Atomic Clock

[BeAChooser]

As I've said repeatedly, as long as we keep letting them FORCE us to fund their DM nonsense, they’ll keep coming up with more nonsense to fund. After all, they have mortgages to pay, mouths to feed, pensions to fund, and expensive vacations to enjoy every year, far into the future. Here’s the latest example …

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-space-ato ... ature.html

Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy.

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The technology to put their theory to the test already exists. Eby says the NASA Parker Solar Probe, which has been operating since 2018 with the help of shielding, has traveled closer to the sun than any human-made craft in history, and is currently operating inside the orbit of Mercury, with plans to move even closer to the sun within a year.

Cost of Parker Solar Probe? $1.5 BILLION in 2018 dollars. And note that in 2019, NASA launched the Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission (DSAC). It cost (https://bigthink.com/hard-science/deep- ... mic-clock/) just $80 million dollars, but all it had to do was survive the environment of deep space. The Parker Solar Probe had to withstand 1400 degree temperatures. Given the difference in environment, location and inflation since PSP was developed and built, I’d wager this DM dark matter experiment would easily cost half a billion dollars at least … of YOUR money. And you just know they'd make it more complicated than it has to be. So probably a billion minimum. Do you really want to fund that in this time of economic stress?

[BeAChooser]

Related ...

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-technique ... asers.html

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany's metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB), the team used data from atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers located far apart in space and time to search for forms of dark matter that would have been invisible in previous searches.

Read the study report linked in the article and you'll see that all they really did was, once again, rule out dark matter in certain mass ranges. They didn't prove it exists. They state in the abstract, “These are the first constraints on DMe alone in this mass range.” Constraints. Whoop de doo. Personally, I think all they’re doing is hyping a new method of spending YOUR money on the DM hoax.

[BeAChooser]

Speaking of DM constraints, here’s a review of a new book hyping Dark Matter research …

https://cerncourier.com/dark-matter-evi ... nstraints/

Dark matter: evidence, theory and constraints

After a relatively glowing introduction, the author admits this …

The one thing I would argue with is the claim in the introduction that dark matter has already been discovered. I agree with the authors that the evidence for dark matter is strong and currently cannot all be explained by modified gravity theories. However, given that all of the evidence for dark matter comes from its gravitational effects, I’m open to the possibility that our understanding of gravity is incorrect or incomplete. The authors are also more positive than I am about the prospects for dark-matter detection in the near future, claiming that we will soon know which dark-matter candidates exist “in the real pantheon of nature”. Optimism is a good thing, but this is a promise that dark-matter researchers (myself included…) have now been making for several decades.

So maybe a bit of critical thinking is starting to break through this reviewer's indoctrination by the mainstream of which he is a part.