Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ?

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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	2019-02-22 19:20 +1100
Message-ID	<gd9pn3Frn4pU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<Jeff-Relf.Me@Feb.16--7.04pm.Seattle.2019> <gd6t9fF8aqdU1@mid.individual.net> <5C6FA754.AC@ix.netcom.com>

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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..
> 
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> 

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.

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What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2019-02-16 19:04 -0800
  Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Edward Prochak <edprochak@gmail.com> - 2019-02-16 19:44 -0800
  Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2019-02-17 05:57 -0500
  Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2019-02-17 10:03 -0800
  Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2019-02-17 14:46 -0800
    Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? mitchrae3323@gmail.com - 2019-02-17 17:16 -0800
      Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Serg Io <invvalid@invalid.com> - 2019-02-22 09:49 -0600
  Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-02-21 17:03 +1100
    Staring into the "hot fire" of the microwave background. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2019-02-21 00:48 -0800
      Re: Staring into the "hot fire" of the microwave background. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-02-21 20:18 +1100
      Re: Staring into the "hot fire" of the microwave background. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2019-02-21 12:02 -0800
    Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2019-02-21 23:40 -0800
      Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-02-22 19:20 +1100
        Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Enes Richard <pies_na_teorie@vp.pl> - 2019-02-22 01:44 -0800
        Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Wade Alvarado <waal@ocwf4ds.ic> - 2019-02-22 14:49 +0000
          Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-02-23 09:03 +1100
            Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2019-02-22 19:45 -0800
            Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? Enes Richard <pies_na_teorie@vp.pl> - 2019-02-23 04:33 -0800
        Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2019-02-22 10:39 -0800
          Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2019-02-23 10:24 -0800
            Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? "Sir Gregory Hall,  Esq." <greghall@yacht_maester.fake> - 2019-02-23 13:30 -0500
            Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2019-02-23 23:42 -0800
        Re: What are the chances that we're just blind(ed) ? "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2019-02-22 10:51 -0800

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