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Re: dark matter

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RichD wrote:
> 
> OK, we don't know what this 'dark matter' stuff is,
> and there's a worldwide race to detect it.  My question
> is, what DO we know about it?  Or, what are the working assumptions?
> 
> For instance, is it supposed to fit into the existing
> fermion/boson structure?  There seems to be an assumption
> that it's uncharged... reason?  Perhaps it does carry
> electric charge, which all cancels out, per the usual
> 'no net universal charge' pseudo-law of science.
> 
> Or, maybe it's some kind of field, which fills the universe,
> a la Higgs.  Is there reason to reject this?
> 
> Also, its distribution is unclear - it binds galaxies,
> does that necessarily mean it's uniformly distributed?
> There are some allusions to a "halo", whatever that means.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out what's known, and what's ruled out -
> 
> --
> Rich


what binds galaxies is gravity.


That which they call 'dark matter' is actually just...Gravity.

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dark matter RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-03 10:14 -0700
  Re: dark matter Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-05-03 12:41 -0500
    Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 23:53 -0700
      Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 23:54 -0700
      Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 07:34 -0700
        Re: dark matter Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-04 09:55 -0700
          Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 12:37 -0700
            Re: dark matter Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-04 14:52 -0700
        Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 10:32 -0700
        Re: dark matter Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-05-06 10:38 -0500
          Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-06 10:25 -0700
      Re: dark matter Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-05-06 10:27 -0500
        Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 10:42 -0700
          Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 10:58 -0700
          Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-06 11:33 -0700
            Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 12:51 -0700
              Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-06 12:58 -0700
                Re: dark matter Francis Oldogf <francisoldogf@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 03:11 -0700
                Re: dark matter Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2016-05-08 03:44 -0700
                Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-08 11:22 -0700
                Re: dark matter Francis Oldogf <francisoldogf@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 07:19 -0700
                Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 11:40 -0700
    Re: dark matter RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-04 10:54 -0700
      Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 12:00 -0700
        Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 12:40 -0700
      Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 12:47 -0700
      Re: dark matter Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-05-09 11:16 -0500
        Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 11:52 -0700
        Re: dark matter RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-10 11:36 -0700
          Re: dark matter Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-10 12:11 -0700
  Re: dark matter Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 12:57 -0500
  Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-03 12:17 -0700
    Re: dark matter Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-05-03 17:58 -0500
      Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-03 17:03 -0700
  Re: dark matter Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 17:37 -0700
    Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-03 17:46 -0700
      Re: dark matter Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 13:20 -0700
  Re: dark matter The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-03 20:46 -0700
  Re: dark matter dlzc <dlzc1@cox.net> - 2016-05-04 07:39 -0700
    Re: dark matter "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 10:36 -0700
  Re: dark matter Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 13:26 -0700
  Re: dark matter Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-05-09 12:57 -0700
  Re: dark matter alsor@interia.pl - 2016-05-10 12:38 -0700
    Re: dark matter Francis Oldogf <francisoldogf@gmail.com> - 2016-05-11 03:54 -0700
      Re: dark matter nero <oldogf@yahoo.it> - 2016-05-14 08:05 -0700
  dark matter David Fuller <fuller.david@hotmail.com> - 2016-05-11 06:30 -0700
    Re: dark matter The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-11 12:41 -0700
      Re: dark matter The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-11 18:47 -0700

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