I remember reading a while back that scientists had done lab experiments in which they had particles of normal matter and dark matter in a vacuum. When the particles came in contact with each other they completely obliterated one another. That would surely say that dark matter in itself is quite real, and that it definitely has some form of energy to it. I suppose the question people would be seeking to answer then is just what kind of energy it contains, what effects it has, or what opportunities might arise from such a thing. As anyone can figure out, all energy could be harnessed in some way or another, so long as you could figure out how it would be done. As with every other theory out there, the 'dark energy' idea is a fantasy someone is coming up with to explain events they've seen. Not to say fantasies of this sort are automatically untrue, quite the contrary, people should keep in mind that many of these sorts of fantasies which people choose to adamantly deny get proven true later on. So who knows... maybe they'll be right, and 'dark energy' ideas will be proven, at which point someone will start coming up with ideas for possible uses and setting up tests and dark energy collectors and generators and blah blah blah, and then we'll all implode.:)
As far as the lab stuff I mentioned. I can't find a link to it right this second. I don't expect anyone to take my word on it, I'm just throwing it out there. I know I could very well be wrong because I haven't studied up on this stuff and I certainly don't know much about it. It just irks me that lately a lot of stuff I see people arguing against, as if they know for sure, is being proven true.
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Yes, I had them mixed up. I felt like an IDIOT later on when I realized I'd switched them. >. :/
I'm kind of absent-minded...
I remember reading a while back that scientists had done lab experiments in which they had particles of normal matter and dark matter in a vacuum. When the particles came in contact with each other they completely obliterated one another. That would surely say that dark matter in itself is quite real, and that it definitely has some form of energy to it. I suppose the question people would be seeking to answer then is just what kind of energy it contains, what effects it has, or what opportunities might arise from such a thing. As anyone can figure out, all energy could be harnessed in some way or another, so long as you could figure out how it would be done. As with every other theory out there, the 'dark energy' idea is a fantasy someone is coming up with to explain events they've seen. Not to say fantasies of this sort are automatically untrue, quite the contrary, people should keep in mind that many of these sorts of fantasies which people choose to adamantly deny get proven true later on. So who knows... maybe they'll be right, and 'dark energy' ideas will be proven, at which point someone will start coming up with ideas for possible uses and setting up tests and dark energy collectors and generators and blah blah blah, and then we'll all implode. :)
As far as the lab stuff I mentioned. I can't find a link to it right this second. I don't expect anyone to take my word on it, I'm just throwing it out there. I know I could very well be wrong because I haven't studied up on this stuff and I certainly don't know much about it. It just irks me that lately a lot of stuff I see people arguing against, as if they know for sure, is being proven true.