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Date: 17 May 2007 04:19:28
From: Sam Wormley
Subject: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 16 May 2007 A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark matter. This is the claim of physicists from the US and Europe, who have used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to see how gravity is bending the light around the cluster. Unlike previous searches in other galaxy clusters, this would be the first time dark matter has been seen isolated in its own separate structure (arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0705.2171). Dark matter is thought to constitute up to 95% of all matter in the universe. Although it has never been observed directly, most physicists believe it to exist because galaxies appear to rotate faster than they would if they only contained ordinary "baryonic matter". The extra pull of the dark matter would explain away the unusual motion. Dark Matter Ring Modeled around Galaxy Cluster CL0024+17 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070516.html Explanation: How do we know that dark matter isn't just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified faint galaxies far in the distance behind a massive cluster of galaxies is shedding new dark on the subject. The above detailed image from the Hubble Space Telescope indicates that a huge ring of dark matter likely exists surrounding the center of CL0024+17 that has no normal matter counterpart. What is visible in the above image, first and foremost, are many spectacular galaxies that are part of CL0024+17 itself, typically appearing tan in color. Next, a close inspection of the cluster center shows several unusual and repeated galaxy shapes, typically more blue. These are multiple images of a few distant galaxies, showing that the cluster is a strong gravitational lens. It is the relatively weak distortions of the many distant faint blue galaxies all over the image, however, that indicates the existence of the dark matter ring. The computationally modeled dark matter ring spans about five million light years and been digitally superimposed to the image in diffuse blue. A hypothesis for the formation of the huge dark matter ring holds that it is a transient feature formed when galaxy cluster CL0024+17 collided with another cluster of galaxies about one billion years ago, leaving a ring similar to when a rock is thrown in a pond.
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Date: 17 May 2007 07:04:16
From: malibu
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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On May 16, 11:00 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com > wrote: > Tomoko Kanazawa wrote: > > "Sam Wormley" <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote in message > >news:kJQ2i.118610$_c5.101298@attbi_s22... > >> Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter > >> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 > > >> 16 May 2007 > > >> A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion > >> light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the > >> existence of dark matter. > > > Nonsense. > > > The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is > > easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic methods. > > Who do you work for? A question I have asked *you* before, SSSSSam. And you ssssaid, 'the good guysssss', ssssssssssssssssssssss Why do I not believe that? John
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Date: 17 May 2007 21:05:33
From: Tomoko Kanazawa
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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"malibu" <vegan16@accesscomm.ca > wrote in message news:1179410656.125109.197300@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > On May 16, 11:00 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote: > > Tomoko Kanazawa wrote: > > > "Sam Wormley" <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote in message > > >news:kJQ2i.118610$_c5.101298@attbi_s22... > > >> Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter > > >> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 > > > > >> 16 May 2007 > > > > >> A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion > > >> light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the > > >> existence of dark matter. > > > > > Nonsense. > > > > > The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is > > > easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic methods. > > > > Who do you work for? I'm with the allies.
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Date: 17 May 2007 06:54:47
From: malibu
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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On May 16, 11:00 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com > wrote: > Tomoko Kanazawa wrote: > > "Sam Wormley" <sworml...@mchsi.com> wrote in message > >news:kJQ2i.118610$_c5.101298@attbi_s22... > >> Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter > >> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 > > >> 16 May 2007 > > >> A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion > >> light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the > >> existence of dark matter. > > > Nonsense. > > > The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is > > easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic methods. > > Who do you work for? haha Interesting reply, shill. Who do YOU work for? The Status Quo? More and more money for the same smoke and mirrors? haha John
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Date: 16 May 2007 23:50:54
From: Tomoko Kanazawa
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com > wrote in message news:kJQ2i.118610$_c5.101298@attbi_s22... > Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter > http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 > > 16 May 2007 > > A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion > light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the > existence of dark matter. Nonsense. The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic methods.
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Date: 17 May 2007 05:00:25
From: Sam Wormley
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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Tomoko Kanazawa wrote: > "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message > news:kJQ2i.118610$_c5.101298@attbi_s22... >> Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter >> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 >> >> 16 May 2007 >> >> A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion >> light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the >> existence of dark matter. > > > Nonsense. > > The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is > easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic methods. > Who do you work for?
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Date: 17 May 2007 06:08:28
From: MTA
Subject: Re: Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter
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>>> Ghostly ring provides strong evidence for dark matter >>> http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/5/15/1 >>> >>> 16 May 2007 >>> >>> A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion >>> light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the >>> existence of dark matter. >> >> >> Nonsense. >> >> The strongest evidence for dark matter is actually dark gravity, which is >> easily explained in terms of trivial geometry using probabilistic >> methods. >> > > Who do you work for? Yowza..Yowza
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