Physicists Postulate Existance of New Particle

corngrower writes "University of Washington physicists postulate the existence of a new particle called the acceleron which links dark energy with the neutrino. The theory offers an explanation for the recent discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe."

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Re:What?

[Alsee]

as I understand it, we have an assumption of science that requires that we account for mass that is not present. Voila! Dark Matter

You have it backwards. They are trying to account for matter that apparently *is* present, we just can't see it and don't know what it is.

There is lots of evidence that there is *something* there, we can see its gravitational effects on the stuff we can see. Gravitational lensing and orbital speeds. And there's plenty of other evidence I don't know offhand.

If you can somehow explain all of the evidence without "dark matter", well you'll be almost as famous as Einstein.

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