NOVA scienceNOW | NOVA Short| Dark Matter Mystery

We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. Astronomer Doug Clowe explains how the Bullet Cluster, a group of galaxies billions of light years away, may shed some light on this mysterious stuff.

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[themightycelestial]

Ehh.

I've seen darker.

[neestle]

No. Good Lord no. Dark matter holds galaxies together.  String theory relates to fundamental atomic particles. Your comment made my brain recoil in horror.

[kdc43]

Invisible dark matter.

Invisible black holes.

Invisible anit-gravity expanding the universe.

Invisible quarks,leptons and the "God Particle".

Science expects us to believe in these things but does not believe in the Invisible God because Science can not see Him, but they still have FAITH in the invisible "God Particle"!!!!!

[sandustanBrasov]

SandustanBrasov

And yet, we can see, we can visualize the ethereal matter. The scheme to one device for to visualize the ethereal matter: EXIST! And this device it can realize!

My e-mail: s.stan65@yahoo.com

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[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov

The PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL MATTER is the visible matter with free eye and is constituted from atoms of the chemical elements. The PHYSICAL-ETHEREAL MATTER is a matter with atoms more small with 7..8 order of dimension than the atoms of chemical elements, and the bodies formed from this matter are invisible for the human eye. The ETHEREAL PHYSICS it occupy with the study of the ethereal matters, but which was abandoned in the XX century, because in 1905 A.Einstein excludes the ether

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov But the ETHER is a physical reality constituted from a very small matter, invisible for human eye, and is formed from atoms more small with 7...8 order of dimension than the atoms of the chemical elements. The matter of the ether penetrate in all the visible bodies and is the physical matter which fills both the interplanetary space and the interatomic space. The ether is a matter with mass and weigth, being subdued and she the action of the universal attraction law.

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov

The science has and history. In the Fundamental Principle of Democrit(470..380BC) it show:"From nothing nothing's born, nothing that exist can not be destroyed and any transformation consist from a reunion and separation...Out of atoms and ether. all rest is not otherwise than rationament and not exist...The spirit as well as the ether consist of a small and spherical atoms, very mobile, atoms that their movement form the phenomenon of life".

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov

The notion of dark matter and dark energy proceed from theoretical physics, from relativity theory of the A. Einstein, from the mistaken interpretation of the physical reality. Something exist indeed: and matter and energy; but is the much ethereal matter and the her energys from the her frame. Dark energy and cosmic acceleration are a failure of relativity of the Einstein.

[sandustanBrasov]

• SandustanBrasov In 1905, A.Einstein conclude that the ether hasn't a correspondent in reality and constitute not a medium which let can serve as reference system. Thus Einstein renounced to the ether notion and absolute space and emits the two restricted relativity principles. By it content the second principle excludes the ether, impose as limit of bodies' movement - the light speed - and denatured completely the classic dynamics reality.

[waysworth]

dark matter holds the universe together

and yet the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate,

explain!

and as long as dark matter is defined as a particle we haven't found yet,

there is no way to refute its existence,

and as long as we loose teeth and find coins,

and define the tooth fairy as a being we haven't seen yet,

we can't refute his/her existence either.

[TheForce74]

Ahh, dark matter! The astronomists flying spaghetti monster.

But who am I to say it doesn't exist...