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Dark Matter Might Be Hiding In Microscopic Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
- mariusz79 12y agoIt may also be hidden at the other side of the rainbow... Astrophysics is losing a lot of time trying to come up with ideas to make something like dark energy and dark matter possible. Maybe it's time to look at some other theories that don't involve the dark whatever.
- givan 12y agoDark matter is not theory, is real, the gravitational effects have been observed, we don't know what it is yet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
- gibybo 12y agoDark matter IS a theory. From the article you linked: >Though the theory of dark matter remains the most widely accepted theory to explain the anomalies in observed galactic rotation, some alternative theoretical approaches have been developed which broadly fall into the categories of modified gravitational laws and quantum gravitational laws.[11] Whether something is a theory or not has nothing to do with whether it is real, however.
- chton 12y agoThere are no other good theories. Most alternatives that don't involve dark matter or dark energy posit that our current theories are wrong on a very large scale, which we don't have any evidence for at all. On a different note, don't mix up dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is real matter that we can observe the gravitation effects of. We know it's there, we just don't know what it is because we can't see it. Dark energy is a placeholder for a gap in our current cosmological model. We can model the properties of it, but we can't observe and have no idea in the slightest where it comes from. Neither of these things is a matter of 'making it possible', they're just questions we don't have an answer to yet, and no satisfactory way of working around them.