Recent content by amateur astronomer Jeff

01-11-25 Jim, I greatly appreciate the information in your response. I found your reference to the "timescape" model very intriguing. It provides an explanation that does not rely on inventing new/unknowns to account for observable interactions. Concerning the “Dark Matter,” I’m still not...

Trying to understand Dark Matter I am not an astrophysics but consider myself relatively intelligent. I am finding it very difficult to understand the concept of dark matter. In simplistic terms, as I understand it, astrophysics currently believe that there is far more mass in the universe...

Please help me understand the need for ‘Dark Energy and Dark Mater’ I raise the question of the need for ‘dark energy’ to describe the rate of universal expansion. As we look deeper and deeper into space (looking into the past) it has been stated that the galaxies we see are moving apart at a...