Astronomalies
February 13, 2018
...and planets made out of dark matter (New Scientist). Such speculative ideas about mysterious unknown stuff like dark matter hardly deserve to be called science at all. Let the staff...
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It’s Over: Dark Energy Was Fake Science
December 16, 2017
...is misleading. Astronomers did not see or detect dark matter. They inferred it from theory-laden observations of distant stars that they believe would have required a “dark matter halo” to...
Is Dark Matter a Myth?
November 28, 2017
...This article discusses another attempt to find dark matter that failed. As more and more experiments fail to detect dark matter, the experiments get more bizarre and speculative. This team...
Dark Matter Mystery Deepens
October 4, 2017
...new consensus view, dark energy will eventually rip apart the very fabric of space-time. It can never return to its state at the beginning. Artist conception of dark matter expanding...
Cosmology Still in the Dark
July 8, 2017
...universe. Skeptics may notice that the interpretation assumes “cold dark matter cosmology.” Dark Matter: Evidence of Anisotropy in the Unknown Does dark matter annihilate quicker in the Milky Way? (Science...
Don’t Trust Scientists Who Were Wrong; Fire Them
June 25, 2017
...with hope, but science is not hope. It is not even hypothesis. It is demonstration. Practitioners of the dark arts (i.e., dark matter and dark energy), continue looking at nothing....
Weekend Digest, May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017
...the lack of dark matter still perplexes astronomers (The Conversation), it’s “time to keep an open mind on dark matter and rivals that do away with it,” opines New Scientist....
Galaxy Evolution Crisis: Start Over
April 27, 2017
When you see the words “challenging” and “requires substantial revision” in the abstract, you know trouble is coming. Eleven astronomers from five continents are unanimous: this galaxy doesn’t fit current...
Dark Matter is Still Very Dark and Very Mysterious
April 24, 2017
by Dr Jerry Bergman A research report in Nature announced the results of the latest experiment designed to prove the existence of Dark matter. In short: “Dark Matter Remains Elusive”...
Dark Matter Remains Missing
March 1, 2017
...the universe’s accelerating expansion — has grown in strength over the eons,” Wall writes. No sign of seasonal dark matter after four years of searching (New Scientist). “Dark matter has...
Excuses for Missing Dark Matter
January 9, 2017
...could vibrate with the slightest pressure, such as whatever-dark-matter-is might produce. The case for co-decaying dark matter (Phys.org). Maybe as the universe cooled as it expanded all that dark matter...
Cosmologists Are Blind in the Dark
November 15, 2016
...the end, we still don’t know.” The search for dark matter (Phys.org): Here’s another piece that reviews the long hunt for the elusive whatever. “Without dark matter, it’s possible that...
Dark Matter: Now You See It, Now You Don't
August 30, 2016
...ripped apart unless something was holding it together.” That something must be Dark Matter. Trouble is, when they go looking for that something, they can’t detect it. The Dark Matter...
Is Dark Matter Going the Way of Phlogiston?
July 21, 2016
There is no exotic dark matter, according to the most sensitive search to date. The ramifications for cosmology are enormous. A lot of time, money, and effort has gone into...
Cosmology in Perpetual Crisis
June 7, 2016
Secular cosmologists are no closer to the truth than they were 20 years ago. Cosmologists, like occult wizards, deal in dark secrets. Dark matter and dark energy are their stock...