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Hmm... whenever I see this [articles about dark matter or dark energy] nowadays I think back to something Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson said on the subject along the
by rubyn00bie 12y ago
Hmm... whenever I see this [articles about dark matter or dark energy] nowadays I think back to something Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson said on the subject along the lines of "We're calling it Dark Matter or Dark Energy because can we measure it (or rather the fact that we're missing a huge chunk of it), but that doesn't mean it's 'dark' or even 'matter' or even one single thing."
It's cool to hear about breakthroughs on the subject but as someone else said, at this point this article feels more like link-bait than anything concrete.
Maybe it's just some folks who are incredibly stoked wanting to share before they have their ducks-in-row. So I'm not trying to say it's intentional.
I'm just hungry for new information, and excited about it, so when it's not all there I'm disappointed. Nerd problems, haha.
- inclemnet 12y ago> but that doesn't mean it's 'dark' or even 'matter' or even one single thing An important addendum to this is that it really does look an awful lot like matter that happens to be dark...or to be more specific, electromagnetically inert. That's not to say it has to be, of course we don't know for sure, but I see a lot of people on the internet apparently quite certain it's not matter at all - often for not very good reasons, or via arguments that aren't remotely that strong.
- essive 12y agoI think as the earlier comment pointed out this really was about the additional data from AMS that helps refine and/or add confidence to the possible theories - some of which are dark matter related and some which are not. Unfortunately, the article title was blatantly incorrect.