Recent content by chemicalmicroscopist

Dark matter and the "Ether" seem to me to have something in common.

Something will not fit together. Electro-chemical analyses can be done using only Coulombs measured. Coulombs are defined by universal constants. Same with mass spectrometry (you can count the atoms). These techniques should come up short of 100%. Something should be inconsistent with...

So, how is it that gravimetric chemical analysis agrees with electrochemical and mass spectrometry analyses. Each adds the analyzed mass to 100%. This should not be possible if there is a component that has gravity properties, but lacks electromagnetic properties. What physics makes this...

could this be a dark matter body? I've seen no comments on this material that supposedly has gravity, but can't ignite like a star (no hydrogen to fuse). Where are the dark matter black holes? Simple question from a chemist.

The whole thing, dark matter and dark energy, is destined for the same fate as the "ether" from the 19th century (light had to have a medium to travel through vacuum). Statements like "dark matter doesn't interact with light". Light is acted on by gravity and dark matter presumably exerts...

Try looking at the data over a long period of time, as for example Steven Koonin did in "Unsettled". The 99 (pseudo-experts) that claimed it was settled, ignored or didn't ask a large number of experts that didn't agree with them. I recall fears of global cooling 50 years ago. Your 3 decades...

You seem to have successfully hand waved at the first part of my comment, re: black holes. And, your explanation there makes some sense. What about BH with both matter and dark matter? Many not be so mimic in that case. Do they exclude one another? Something like the Pauli exclusion...

The models are all over the place, so the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cherry picked the ones that fit it's narrative. I make choices based on conserving resources and not a set of climate models that show no consistency, predicting both global warming and global cooling.

Reminds me of "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" by D. Adams. Post cards of the Cathedral at Chatham being very valuable. Never built because of pushing back the start construction date of an ion mill.:yum:

RE "Supermassive black holes may solve mystery of our universe's gravitational-wave 'hum' A statement that dark matter doesn't interact with light. Apparently true, not electro-magnetically. However, light is influenced by gravity and it is claimed that dark matter has gravity. Then don't...

There are no violations of entropy. Thermodynamics treats both open and closed instances. I'm suggesting that if time stops in a blackhole then in that closed system (adiabatic) entropy doesn't change either. The thread here uses relativity to point out how time passes at differing rates based...

If time doesn't stop in a blackhole then entropy is increasing. They are proportional.

When discussing the speed of light in matter you must distinguish between the ray and the wave front. In double refracting crystals the ray and the wave front travel at different speeds (ordinary ray and extraordinary ray) The speed of light is inherent in light. What surprises me is that it...

I have read that electrons travel backwards in time "all the time". So, I'll just say they do it early and often. Perhaps another disconnect of gravity-space time with quantum mechanics. I suspect that if you're much larger than an electron, efforts to do other than travel forwards in time...

We will figure it all out some day in fits and starts. Galileo to Newton to Einstein (leaving out many other giants in science) with bits in between. People are making progress all the time. Don't give up because its hard. Its also quite fun.