On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jesse Mazer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dark matter behaves pretty convincingly like large clumps of matter that, > aside from not interacting with normal matter via non-gravitational forces, > obeys the same sort of dynamical laws as any other form of matter, see the > following for a good quick summary (note particularly the stuff about the > colliding galaxy clusters whose dark matter halos seemed to "outshoot" the > position of the visible clusters themselves, since the visible matter like > stars is slowed down via friction with gas and dust during the collision, > but friction is an electromagnetic interaction so dark matter should be > impervious to it): > > http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/06/24/convincing-a-young-scientist-t/
Thanks Jesse, very nice article. > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
