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Re: dark matter

From	Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: dark matter
Date	2016-05-03 12:57 -0500
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On 5/3/2016 12:14 PM, 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?

That it is not baryonic.
Not neutrinos.
Does not react electromagnetically (hence not charged).

Have you tried online resources, even something like wikipedia?

>
> 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
>


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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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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