Dark matter question..

[dark_star]

I would just like to ask a question about this alusive 'dark matter'. They used the hubble telescope to send a point of light through space, and they just waited until it was diffracted, yes right or wrong. anyway, my question is, it may sound stupid, and it probably is. Can dark matter be a interdimentional partical, somthing that is streched over two planes of existance, so the effects (eg gravity and stuff) of the partical are on 'this' plane of existance (dimention or whatever you call it)...and its mass is else where on another plane? that would kindof acount for the 'lack' of substance to the partical.<br /><br />I'm 16 so humour me, *grin*

 

[kyle_baron]

<font color="yellow"><br />They used the hubble telescope to send a point of light through space, and they just waited until it was diffracted, yes right or wrong. </font><br /><br />I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. You might be thinking of the ground based telescopes with lasers that point upwards to the sky, that create an artificial twinkling star. The telescope's computer, along with pistons behind a flexible primary mirror, will bend the primary mirror (hundreds or thousands) of times per second to correct for the waviness of the atmosphere. This is called Interferometry, and is as good or better than Hubble's resolution in certain circumstances.<br /><font color="yellow"><br />Can dark matter be a interdimentional partical, somthing that is streched over two planes of existance, so the effects (eg gravity and stuff) of the partical are on 'this' plane of existance (dimention or whatever you call it)...and its mass is else where on another plane? that would kindof acount for the 'lack' of substance to the partical. <br /><br />I'm 16 so humour me, *grin* </font><br /><br />There's no humor in these forums <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> . But to answer your question, yes, that is one of the current theories. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="4"><strong></strong></font></p> </div>