15 May 14
Look at this interactive map to show the structure of local stars and then expand out millions of light years to see the structure of how galaxies are laid out in space, the galaxies are arranged as if they were on lines of a disorganized spider web, the thinking being dark matter has attracted regular matter along its web like path and that is now where galaxies reside.
Outside of the dark matter web, voids abound hundreds of millions of light years across with not much inside because most of the matter there was attracted to the dark matter web early on in the universe and this is what it is like now.
15 May 14
Originally posted by sonhouseI understand the thinking is that there is a lot of matter that can't be accounted for so they make up the idea that there must be dark matter that can't be seen. The fact is they don't know and just have to make up this dark matter and such to make the mathematics work for their hypothesis.
Look at this interactive map to show the structure of local stars and then expand out millions of light years to see the structure of how galaxies are laid out in space, the galaxies are arranged as if they were on lines of a disorganized spider web, the thinking being dark matter has attracted regular matter along its web like path and that is now where ga ...[text shortened]... e was attracted to the dark matter web early on in the universe and this is what it is like now.
Creationists have another hypothesis that don't need dark matter and such.
Originally posted by RJHindsWhich just goes to show you are an idiot. You don't understand advanced astronomy nor the gains that have been made in the last 30 years with Hubble and now even more powerful scopes. They learned to track the EFFECT of dark matter because it is there, it is real, we just can't see it BUT it is mass and generates gravity and therefore distorts the image of stars that appear behind it because there is a kind of ghost distortion of light by this gravity.
I understand the thinking is that there is a lot of matter that can't be accounted for so they make up the idea that there must be dark matter that can't be seen. The fact is they don't know and just have to make up this dark matter and such to make the mathematics work for their hypothesis.
Creationists have another hypothesis that don't need dark matter and such.
This allows astronomers to chart where the dark matter resides even if they can't see it directly.
For instance, if you had been paying any attention to astronomy over the last 60 years you would have maybe heard about one salient point discovered by a female astronomer: That galaxies are not rotating as if they were a disconnected bunch of stars and gas, they rotate (ours takes about 200 million years to make one circle) as if they were rotating on a plate.
The gist of that is, this lady discovered there was more mass in the milky way than can be seen directly with telescopes.
It turns out there is several TIMES more mass in almost ALL galaxies than can be seen with telescopes. Dark matter makes up about 84 percent of all the mass in the universe, that leaves only 15% or so for our kind of matter.
That was a singular discovery, there is more mass in the milky way and almost every other galaxy seen than can be accounted for visually.
Then the search began for candidates.
The one they chose they called 'dark matter'.
Matter that does not emit light, does not interact much with ordinary matter except for gravitation, it has real mass so it has real gravitational effects that can now be and has been charted to show where it is even if it cannot be seen.
Just another instance of human intelligence mucking up your YEC bullshyte.
You are just too obtuse, too old, out of touch with the advances in sciences you haven't followed and you have ZERO credibility or education to be judging men a hundred times your intelligence.
Take a look at this article from Sky and Telescope magazine and try to get up to speed on such subjects before you make your stupid sweeping statements deriding the intelligence of humans.
That is what you are doing at the bottom of it all, you cannot abide human intelligence actually figuring things out you YEC idiots will never understand.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/dark-matter-spotted-in-the-milky-way/
Try to read the whole article and especially look at the customer comments AFTER the article. They bring up points that are worth discussing.
16 May 14
Originally posted by sonhouseI am not an astronomer, so the fact that I may not know everything about advanced astronomy does not make me an idiot. When they learn what this dark matter is and can explain it so it makes sense, then I might believe them. However, right now I think they have many unknowns that they need to make up explanations for, so people think they know what they are talkig about.
Which just goes to show you are an idiot. You don't understand advanced astronomy nor the gains that have been made in the last 30 years with Hubble and now even more powerful scopes. They learned to track the EFFECT of dark matter because it is there, it is real, we just can't see it BUT it is mass and generates gravity and therefore distorts the image of ...[text shortened]... look at the customer comments AFTER the article. They bring up points that are worth discussing.
16 May 14
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Originally posted by sonhouseWell said. He is a bully and is just full of condescending crap but has the astonishing arrogance to think he knows better than all of us despite having NO understanding of science and NO scientific credentials whatsoever and NO real interest in science whatsoever. He is just a troll in the science forum and I personally think should be permanently banned from the science forum. He can take all his religious crap to the Spirituality forum where it belongs with all the rest of the religious crap there.
Which just goes to show you are an idiot. You don't understand advanced astronomy nor the gains that have been made in the last 30 years with Hubble and now even more powerful scopes. They learned to track the EFFECT of dark matter because it is there, it is real, we just can't see it BUT it is mass and generates gravity and therefore distorts the image of ...[text shortened]... look at the customer comments AFTER the article. They bring up points that are worth discussing.
16 May 14
Originally posted by humyhey Humy have you managed to change lead into gold yet? 😛
Well said. He is a bully and is just full of condescending crap but has the astonishing arrogance to think he knows better than all of us despite having NO understanding of science and NO scientific credentials whatsoever and NO real interest in science whatsoever. He is just a troll in the science forum and I personally think should be permanently banned from ...[text shortened]... s crap to the Spirituality forum where it belongs with all the rest of the religious crap there.
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16 May 14
Originally posted by RJHindsThat you admit to not understanding astronomy, but still think your uninformed opinion matters, does
I am not an astronomer, so the fact that I may not know everything about advanced astronomy does not make me an idiot.
make you look like an idiot of the highest order.
16 May 14
Originally posted by RJHindsWell, if you don't believe in dark matter, you are left with the task of explaining why the stuff bends light from GRAVITY and nothing else. Good luck finding a YEC rationalization for that.
I am not an astronomer, so the fact that I may not know everything about advanced astronomy does not make me an idiot. When they learn what this dark matter is and can explain it so it makes sense, then I might believe them. However, right now I think they have many unknowns that they need to make up explanations for, so people think they know what they are talkig about.
16 May 14
Originally posted by C HessI did not admit I don't understand anything about astronomy. I simply stated that I am not an astronomer and know little about advanced astronomy. I understand that some of the astronomers claim the universe is made of 84% dark matter, but they still don't know what this dark matter is after all their investigations.
That you admit to not understanding astronomy, but still think your uninformed opinion matters, does
make you look like an idiot of the highest order.
16 May 14
Originally posted by sonhouseSince we are not astronomers, I guess we will just have to wait until someone can prove it all.
Well, if you don't believe in dark matter, you are left with the task of explaining why the stuff bends light from GRAVITY and nothing else. Good luck finding a YEC rationalization for that.
16 May 14
Originally posted by RJHindsActually I DID study astronomy in college and what bends light, not refracts it, is gravity, perhaps you did not get that far in physics to find out about that salient fact.
Since we are not astronomers, I guess we will just have to wait until someone can prove it all.
17 May 14
Originally posted by sonhouseNo, I never did any experiments on gravity bending light. At least I don't recall it. However, that was 50 years ago that I was studying Physics in college.
Actually I DID study astronomy in college and what bends light, not refracts it, is gravity, perhaps you did not get that far in physics to find out about that salient fact.
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Originally posted by RJHindsThat would be because you don't DO gravity bending experiments in college unless you have access to a really good telescope. Those experiments are done observing light from stars near gravity sources.
No, I never did any experiments on gravity bending light. At least I don't recall it. However, that was 50 years ago that I was studying Physics in college.
I gather you didn't also know it was Einstein who predicted such in the first place and the confirmation of it is what led to his Nobel prize, which wasn't for relativity but for figuring out Brownian movement since att nobody understood Relativity enough to want to take a chance vetting him that way.
If you actually are interested in the subject, here is a WIKI showing what that is all about, gravity bending light.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity
But I forgot, you don't believe in relativity either... my bad, you can go back to your rocking chair now. Sorry for bothering you with such tripe.
17 May 14
Originally posted by sonhouseI don't believe they can actually see light bending around this so-called dark matter regardless of what Einstein predicted. Did Einsten also predict dark matter?
That would be because you don't DO gravity bending experiments in college unless you have access to a really good telescope. Those experiments are done observing light from stars near gravity sources.
I gather you didn't also know it was Einstein who predicted such in the first place and the confirmation of it is what led to his Nobel prize, which wasn' ...[text shortened]... r... my bad, you can go back to your rocking chair now. Sorry for bothering you with such tripe.