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Elusive Dark Matter May Be Detected With GPS Satellites
An anonymous reader writes: Two researchers say time disparities identified through the network of satellites that make up our modern GPS infrastructure can help detect dark matter. In a paper in the online version of the scientific journal Nature Physics, they write that dark matter may be organized as a large gas-like collection of topological defects, or energy cracks. "We propose to detect the defects, the dark matter, as they sweep through us with a network of sensitive atomic clocks. The idea is, where the clocks go out of synchronization, we would know that dark matter, the topological defect, has passed by."
Another reader adds this article about research into dark energy:
The particles of the standard model, some type of dark matter and dark energy, and the four fundamental forces. That's all there is, right? But that might not be the case at all. Dark energy may not simply be the energy inherent to space itself, but rather a dynamical property that emerges from the Universe: a sort of fifth force. This is speculation that's been around for over a decade, but there hasn't been a way to test it until now. If this is the case, it may be accessible and testable by simply using presently existing vacuum chamber technology
In Ferguson Missouri.
Go ahead, mod me down, but you know that was funny.
It, like dark matter, are constantly asking us to take things on faith...
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The missing mass of the universe is junk orbiting the stars that we can't see because we don't have high enough resolution on our telescopes to see all the junk.
Idiots are still looking for the luminiferous aether except now they call it dark matter, eh?
It seems that Einstein's cosmological constant just doesn't want to die.
May the Force be with you.
Tell that to a mathemitician. Just do a few steps in a proof, and then waive your hands and say "beh! GOOD ENUF!!11!"
every exception and contradiction in academically championed theories. It's that simple. It's not a real phenomenon.
sounds pretty similar to the "ether" - and I bet this experiment will have the same result as Michelson's and Morley's. (Where's a Swiss patent clerk when you need one?)
No, it is very different from the ether. The ether was the proposed medium which light propagated through. As such it was a continuous field not clumps of particles. Also the ether was massless and had no gravitational field. Dark Matter has a mass and causes a gravitational field which is how we know that it exists.
No, the reason the Higgs is called the god particle is because you can't have Mass without it.
Satellites? Okay, here's one for you. The Voyager spacecraft. It traveled outside the solar system and the only minute unpredictable change in vector was due to heat radiating infrared photons from its metal. The measurements were THAT sensitive! And it interacted with exactly zero dark matter. You think some GPS satellite orbiting Earth is going to come up with different results?
We've been seeing physics drivel for roughly 50 years trying to explain subtle "dark matter" as a fancy, "undetectable" form of matter. Well, guess what? Normal matter is "undetectable" in interstellar space if it's in any size between stars (which ignite) and nebulae (which block background light from stars). And what we're finding, as we explore for exoplanets and expand our orbital telescope capability, is that there are a *lot* of dark planets, planetisimals, and just plain debris in the interstellar void. Spread out over light years, and cold as background radiation, it's a *nightmare* to detect and easily accounts for the confusingly low Hubble constant and unexpectedly low speed of more distant extragalactic objects.
But n-o-o-o, every creative twit who likes to invent math and particles for no particular reason insists that their particular violation of the historical equations bredicts this, even they they're making up the results themselves because the curves don't fit *their* theories, either, but they're sure a "mathematical breakthrough is just around the corner!!!" Please. If it acts like "dark matter",the obvious candidate is precisely that. "Dark, ordinary matter".
This is not a good description. I've no idea what a topological defect or energy crack is.
There will be no discovery as dark matter is a figment of the theorists imagination, shortly to be diproved by a new grand unified theory of electromagnetics and light that will unify the microcosm and macrocosm. The logic of this theory is already a known, but expect the dim estabilshmentatians to have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the new paradigm. Dark matter is the shadowy stain on your consciousness, begone satan!
In 1986, Dr. Ernest W. Silvertooth (an optical physicist) conducted an experiment to determine the absolute velocity vector of the Earth in space. This experiment not only matched the results of NASA's COBE satellite, designed to measure the same vector, but did so BEFORE NASA launched it. The paper is available here: http://www.rexresearch.com/ether/silvertooth.pdf.
"Galaxies are spinning faster than my gravity only equations say they should". "Maybe there is more than gravity causing the spin". "No, must be some invisible undetectable particles, that has to be it.". "Ok".
Ok, here's one for you - Voyager is a cheap ass grade school optical microscope. The GPS constellation is a scanning tunneling microscope. Which would you choose to look at atomic level features?
Seriously, you're comparing apples to the thing least like apples that you can imagine. For starters they're looking at different effects, Voyager's effects manifested as variations in trajectory, while they're looking for variations in (some extremely precise) clocks with the GPS constellation. Voyager is a single bird, while the GPS constellation is an array of 32 birds - which means you have enough that the effects are amenable to statistical analysis. Etc... etc...
Your children will know the truth but the establishmentarians, as you put it, will have to die off first.
Too bad Einstein put us back about 100 years, I was so looking forward to those promised flying cars.
What's funny is Feynman himself took too much faith in the math than actual observations.
If you told people gravity is relative to rotating inertial frames they would call you a blasphemer for not believing the gospel of Einstein.
Ask someone to explain why gravitational mass and inertial mass are supposedly equal. They have no answer, and nobody seems to care. The Equivalence Principle is bunk.
I know that but I guess the joke was lost on you.