Dark Matter - Sixty Symbols

We take a look at mysterious dark matter - and a chocolate pie. More videos at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/

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Science & Technology

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• dark
• matter

[TheJaws0413]

I CAME HERE FOR THE DARK MATTER AND WHO KNOWS THAT THE PIE WILL INTEREST ME MORE

[conoba]

Whenever I think about dark matter I think something simple but not yet understood might be the explanation. People thought a substance called phogiston is the source of combustion. That electromagnetic waves used to travel in a strange medium called the "ether".

I bet dark matter and dark energy are like those two.

I want the brightest minds to keep poking at the problem untill they find out what is most likely to be going on.

[Beannaich]

Rule 34?

[RBuckminsterFuller]

Dark matter passes right through you... 23% of the universe is made of indian curry?

[MeloCloud]

Shes so beautiful

[DiogenesofCalgary]

@Nyphur I understand you view in that you want proof. I however regard this as a public forum for thought and discussion. I did try to work on the geometry and if you search for "The Effects of an Index of Refraction for Dark Matter.xlsx" perhaps it will show up. You can take it or leave it.

[d4v3tm]

smallest slice for the cameraman :D

[TheDigitalStone]

1:29 She is so urging to put it in her mouth :P

[Nyphur]

@DiogenesofCalgary I doubt you're too lazy to provide the maths, I just don't think you have any. And if you haven't got the maths, you haven't got a theory. A physical theory is not a collection of vague ideas that someone has a hunch might be right, written in plain english. It's a set of rules written in mathematics that makes observable predictions about the world, and when any observation contradicts it, the theory is wrong. The burden of proof is on you.

[DiogenesofCalgary]

@Nyphur I agree with what you are saying and when Doppler red shift fails to explain NGC7603 I think you at least have to start to question it. I'm too lazy to give you mathematical proof and perhaps it's beyond my capabilities. Also with only 500 characters at my disposal it's hard to give a meaningful explanation. But there are several ways of testing this, but I don't have a telescope or a way to measure "red shift". Do you?

[Nyphur]

@DiogenesofCalgary To be useful and successful, a new theory needs to explain ALL the observations the current theories predict, and then predict something as-yet unobserved or something observed that the current theory doesn't explain. You can't just pick out examples that support your idea and ignore the millions of observations that might disprove it. The burden of proof is on you, and that proof must be in mathematically derived predictions consistent with observation.

[DiogenesofCalgary]

@Nyphur Take a look at this galaxy.NGC 7603  Red shift doesn't rationalize this but having the light being refracted by perhaps two intervening layers of dark matter, one in the main galaxy and one in the proto galaxy will.

hubble-photo-brightest-galaxy-­gravitational-lens

This galaxy is so bright because it is so close the the galaxy that is lensing it yet is supposed to be twice as far away. Double lensing again. Occam's razor.