An article in this week's edition of Nature adds to the mysteries surrounding 'dark matter'. Should we abandon this enigmatic concept of invisible matter that exerts gravitational attraction but is otherwise undetectable? Could it be that we simply do not... ...full story at digg
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Cosmic crash reveals dark matter » digg Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes. The results come from astronomical observations of a titanic collision between two clusters of galaxies 5.7... |
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Dark Matter Could Be Detected With 'Scintillating Bolometer' » digg "One of the biggest challenges in physics today is to discover the true nature of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed – even though it seems to make up one-quarter of the matter of the Universe. So we have to attempt to detect it usi... |
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Computer Model Points To the Missing Matter » slashdot eldavojohn writes "There exists a little-known problem of missing regular matter that has perhaps been overshadowed by the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Computer models show that there should be about 40% more regular matter than we see... so... |
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Resurrecting Newton to do away with dark matter » digg A review paper in this week's issue of Science looks at the current state of MOND theories, which seek to resurrect Newtonian gravity and are the chief competitors to the ΛCDM cosmological model, which relies on dark matter and dark energy. The verdict... |
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Space Observatory May Have Found Dark Matter » slashdot KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model where... |
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