Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1311182&ctx=mail> googlegroups.com 9:07 AM (12 minutes ago) to everything-list On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dark Matter is required for GR to predict that galaxies do not fly apart > Richard
Hi Richard, Thanks. I didn't express myself clearly. What I mean is: if GR requires dark matter to work, and if we can't observe dark matter, doesn't this mean that GR is falsified? It seems to predict the existence of something that is not there... Telmo. No. Dark matter and energy are clearly there whether or not we know what particles they are made of. There are several observations/measurements that indicate that the universe is flat. The existence of dark matter and energy is completely consistent with them. On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com>wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dark Matter is required for GR to predict that galaxies do not fly apart > > Richard > > Hi Richard, > > Thanks. I didn't express myself clearly. What I mean is: if GR > requires dark matter to work, and if we can't observe dark matter, > doesn't this mean that GR is falsified? It seems to predict the > existence of something that is not there... > > Telmo. > > > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Honest question: isn't "dark matter" a fancy name for failed > predictions? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Telmo. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Everything List" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.