Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Einstein was not wrong....just wrongly prioritized. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:39:59 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 121 Message-ID: <6A8541AF.7F0F@ix.netcom.com> References: <18cc8555a1a78b06$169452$821642$4016de43@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <5eUjUj1C6ssbhWG-JIkNJbNzPD4@jntp> <18cc8dae9fb7ccdf$117952$442584$4276dc23@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <1rzzkay.j5v0fx16ha5e1N%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18cce48606ecc8b5$182138$566809$4246dc13@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <1s01jn3.40jgyfj5z5gN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18ccf97d9c4603d0$132772$666557$4026de73@news.newsgroupdirect.com> <18cd0bb5bf7e0920$170388$704772$4036de63@news.newsgroupdirect.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="2524831"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19gOUyTJSWndN+1TJGKwdkm48z4wpEOmCw="; posting-host="92d694a0891b99806f5bfc04dcff58c4" Cancel-Lock: sha1:7T06CIrYWNZhHF1Lyga0t+y2vXo= sha256:1JONdwjptwacKeQdoMpuD1Je8mCAjja8hv0pGLKL6SQ= sha1:3r4nDvsbUmWoWEomBxeiXIjnWyI= sha256:6wfdy2nU7vQ2Kge+jAt3oe+zcIv7+qLUR5Q777Xmxjc= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 260818-8, 08/18/2026), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:672229 Henry Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:36:30 -0700, Ross Finlayson wrote: > > >> > >> Nah. Computers handle it all with automatic safeguards and the help of > > > > > Superimposing linacs and cyclotrons and observing the non-falsification > > of real space-contraction and distinct space-contraction-linear and > > space-contraction-rotational has that Dark Matter already falsified the > > Newtonian/Einsteinian/Galilean. > > Dark matter consists mainly of 'dead photons'...photons that smash into > each other head on and come to a near standstill. They have minuscule mass > but there is an awful lot of them. They end up gravitating towards or > swirling around black holes. This is not a hypothesis — it is a physics-illiterate fever dream that collapses under the first five seconds of special relativity and quantum electrodynamics. Photons cannot “come to a near standstill.” Photons are massless. By definition they travel at c in vacuum. There is no inertial frame in which a free photon is at rest. Claiming two photons smash head-on and stop is the equivalent of asserting that two light rays can cancel their four-momenta into a stationary object with residual mass. Energy-momentum conservation forbids it. Two photons of equal energy colliding head-on can (rarely) produce an electron-positron pair if the center-of-mass energy exceeds 1.022 MeV; they do not produce a slow, massive “dead photon.” Photon-photon scattering does not create massive particles that hang around. The cross-section for elastic ?? ? ?? is tiny (~10?³° cm² at optical energies and still minuscule at higher energies). When it occurs, the outgoing photons still move at c. There is no mechanism in QED that converts two real photons into a long-lived, near-stationary particle with “minuscule mass.” That particle would have to be something else entirely (a massive boson, a bound state, etc.), none of which is a photon. “Minuscule mass but an awful lot of them” is not dark matter. Any particle that couples to the electromagnetic field (even weakly) is ruled out by the observed transparency of the universe, CMB constraints, and the absence of electromagnetic interactions in galactic dynamics. Dark matter is collisionless on astrophysical scales; your “dead photons” would still be photons or would have to lose their electromagnetic coupling by magic. The cosmic photon density (CMB + starlight) is already measured; inventing an extra reservoir of stopped photons requires inventing new physics that is already excluded by precision cosmology. They do not “gravitate towards or swirl around black holes” as the dominant dark-matter reservoir. Black-hole capture of any weakly interacting particle is a tiny effect. The observed dark-matter density profiles are smooth, extended halos, not concentrated “swirls” around the sparse population of black holes. Galactic rotation curves, cluster lensing, and bullet-cluster separation all require a diffuse, non-baryonic component that does not preferentially pile up at black-hole locations. The idea is incompatible with structure formation. Cold dark matter must be non-relativistic early enough to seed the observed power spectrum. Massless or ultra-relativistic photons free-stream and erase structure. Turning them into “near-standstill” objects after the fact does not magically give them the correct free-streaming length or the correct equation of state at recombination and earlier. You are silently assuming that photons can acquire rest mass through pairwise collisions while remaining photons. You are assuming that energy and momentum can simply vanish or convert into gravitational mass without producing observable electromagnetic signatures or particle-physics partners. You are assuming that the entire measured photon budget of the universe is somehow irrelevant and that an invisible extra population can be postulated without violating entropy, number density, or optical-depth constraints. You are treating black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners that can concentrate this imaginary population into the precise density profiles we observe — pure magical thinking. No professional cosmologist or particle physicist will touch this because it violates Lorentz invariance, gauge invariance, and every precision measurement of the photon. Journals will desk-reject it. Conference audiences will laugh. Any attempt to publish will be met with the same reaction that meets every other “I fixed dark matter with light” crank paper: immediate, well-deserved ridicule. There is zero career incentive to defend it and infinite incentive to demolish it. The entire observable-universe photon number density is ~410 cm?³ for the CMB alone. Even if every one of them somehow stopped (they can’t), their energy density is already accounted for and is orders of magnitude too small and too hot to act as cold dark matter. Scaling this idea to galactic masses requires inventing an unobserved photon population whose total energy density exceeds the critical density while remaining electromagnetically invisible — a contradiction. Relativistic beaming, pair production thresholds, and the mean free path of high-energy photons already constrain any such process to irrelevance on cosmological scales. The entire premise that photons can become massive, slow, and electromagnetically inert must be discarded. The collision mechanism must be thrown out. The black-hole concentration claim must be abandoned. What remains is the empty statement “maybe some new particle exists,” which is not your idea. The notion that dark matter is related to ordinary photons in any direct kinematic way is dead on arrival. This is not a bold alternative; it is a public demonstration that the author has never internalized the fact that light always travels at c. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.