Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news.unit0.net!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.physics.relativity,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:40:04 -0800 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5C6FA754.AC@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1550821110 68130 108.219.229.47 (22 Feb 2019 07:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 07:38:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 190221-4, 02/21/2019), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:728671 sci.astro:61826 sci.physics.relativity:484248 comp.os.linux.advocacy:487632 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 17/02/2019 2:04 pm, Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote: > > 95% of our galaxy is "dark matter" ( unseen mass ); > > it's spherical, like earth, not a disk, > > and it's denser in the middle, like earth. > > > > What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? > > Just because we haven't seen it, doesn't mean it isn't viewable. > > > > What do you mean by this? > > a) Dark matter emits light, but it all just happens to be blocked from > our view by other matter? > > b) Dark matter emits light, but we've just failed to look in the right > direction? > > c) Dark matter emits a kind of light beyond our understanding that we > can't detect? > > d) Something else. > > (a) and (b) are highly improbable. > > (c) is pseudo-scientific meaningless drivel. > > (d) what else? Dark matter is matter that is soooo far away..that you cannot see the light that it emits. a few trillion miles away.. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---