Bogus Dark Matter Research

[MeteorWayne]

I'm going to have to read that a few times!!<br /><br />thanx for an excellent summary. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[michaelmozina]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>It is really hard to "prove" that any theory, in the truest sense of the word, is right. It is quite another thing to find a counter-example that will disprove a theory. A well formed theory has to have an opportunity for it to be falsified or else it is metaphysics.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />I also prefer the "metaphysics low/free" approach. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />I guess my biggest complaint with the idea of dark matter is that it simply can't be falsified in any logical manner, and nobody has ever produced a gram of the stuff, or a controlled experiment to justify it's use in a math formula related to a physical universe. DM is metaphysics at this point, because it can't be falsified, and nothing, not one controlled test, demonstrates that it exists in nature. MOND theories are therefore more interesting from my perspective as well.<br /><br />As far as the bullet cluster data is concerned, it seems to me that the distance between solar systems is so vast that the likelihood of a direct hit between solar systems is very small. All that lensing data suggests to me is that the majority of the mass is concentrated in and around solar systems (that pass through one another) rather than in the surrounding gas that tends to interact with gas from other galaxies during the collision process. In other words, the data suggests that the bulk of the "missing mass" is located in the galaxy infrastructure (solar systems), and not in the plasma threads that surround the solar systems. As far as I know that "missing mass' is simply due to their gross underestimation of the number and weight of solar systems in each of the colliding, or perhaps just one of the colliding galaxies. I see no reason to assume that "missing mass" is automatically "dark matter" anymore than I would jump to the conclusion than an object in the sky that I cannot personally identify is necessarily from another plan <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds. - Kristian Birkeland </div>