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: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:39:24 -0800 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 53 Message-ID: <5C7041DC.7AE7@ix.netcom.com> References: <5C6FA754.AC@ix.netcom.com> 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 1550860671 97475 108.219.229.47 (22 Feb 2019 18:37:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:37:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 190222-2, 02/22/2019), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:728715 sci.astro:61831 sci.physics.relativity:484285 comp.os.linux.advocacy:487640 Sylvia Else wrote: > > On 22/02/2019 6:40 pm, The Starmaker wrote: > > 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 --- > > > > We can see stuff that's near the edge of the universe, so far away that > its light started out soon after the big bang. I don't think distance is > a problem. > > Sylvia. Sorry, my mistake...I meant to write a few trillion light years away. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---