Telmo asked: *Honest question: isn't "dark matter" a fancy name for failed predictions?*
*I would not be so rude * - just call it an ingenious way to save our scientific face in so far developed conventional science. Then it required 'dark energy' in the dark minds.And ALL had been justified by the theories to be justified. John M On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jesse Mazer <laserma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dark matter behaves pretty convincingly like large clumps of matter that, > > aside from not interacting with normal matter via non-gravitational > forces, > > obeys the same sort of dynamical laws as any other form of matter, see > the > > following for a good quick summary (note particularly the stuff about the > > colliding galaxy clusters whose dark matter halos seemed to "outshoot" > the > > position of the visible clusters themselves, since the visible matter > like > > stars is slowed down via friction with gas and dust during the collision, > > but friction is an electromagnetic interaction so dark matter should be > > impervious to it): > > > > > http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/06/24/convincing-a-young-scientist-t/ > > Thanks Jesse, very nice article. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Honest question: isn't "dark matter" a fancy name for failed > predictions? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Telmo. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Everything List" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
