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lilrabbitfoofoo t1_j1zsvnd wrote

ROFL. Dark matter nonsensists really are getting pretty desperate these days...

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wolfpack_charlie t1_j215kaa wrote

Comments here are weird. Dark matter is just as accepted by the scientific community as anything else. There's a ton of evidence for it and yet redditors know better than all the world's best astronomers? Weird lol

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Ape_Togetha_Strong t1_j21ad1x wrote

Replying to wolfpack_charlie (#1,128,692)

We've even already gone through the process of predicting a dark particle that does not interact with the strong or electromagnetic forces to make an equation add up, and then waiting 35 years to be able to have a single detection of that particle. Neutrinos are "dark matter", we just don't call them that because we know that they're too hot and light to be responsible for the features of the universe that the term "dark matter" was coined as a placeholder name for.

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ImpressiveLife3116 t1_j21osse wrote

The term dark matter might sound corny and from science fiction but its effects can be observed.

For example, American astronomers in the 70’s observed that speed of rotation at the edge of spiral galaxies is the same as speed of rotation close to center of the galaxy. This should not be possible because the gravity reduces as distance from center increases. But this can be explained through the existence of mass we cannot see that engulfs spiral galaxies with a diameter significantly larger than the galaxy.

Swiss Astronomer Zwicki first observed effects of unseen matter in his experiments and called the unseen mass dunkle Materie ('dark matter'). The guy who discovered it gets dibs on naming. That how its always been.

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Bascna t1_j22pzax wrote

That sounds like a very elegant way to test for this type of matter.

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