Yep. I take a keen interest in the news and not just politics. But I do get tired of the election when so much of it seems so predictable now.
We can talk about other things. We can fantasise about the nature of dark energy and matter. We can discuss the desirable ethics for the invention of future robots and computers. We can post pictures of recent anomalies in nature and speculate on what caused them.
I have proven...in my head...that dark matter cannot exit. It is a chain of logical thoughts leading to that conclusion. One day I will write it all down and send it to you.
This is intriguing Mr Einsteinium. "Exit" or exist?
My godson tells me that we can only know the existence of dark matter via logical deduction based on other measurements and effects. He's currently in first year doing maths and physics at Sydney Uni. He says nothing in today's quantum physics can be understood without the relevant grounding in maths, because ordinary language cannot adequately describe quantum phenomena. Apparently, both matter and light are now understood to partake of the nature of photons, both wave and particle, but neither one at the same moment as the other (related to Heisenberg's principle.) It sounds as esoteric as the mystical and paradoxical language of the Upanishads or the Tao Te Ching. Akiel describes dark matter as something that cannot be directly observed because it does not reflect or emit any kind of light, perhaps because it is too minute or too dense (like black holes.) He says its existence and characteristics are inferred from the gravitational effects of the movement of matter, effects on microwaves in the background, and something which influences astrophysical structure in the universe. The physicists observe a total quantity of mass and energy in the universe, and can detect some of the total as ordinary matter, neutrinos, and dark energy - but 27% of what should be there is missing.
So it seems like this to me in very simple terms - if I had a bag which held something weighing 1 kilo, and if inside it I found 7 apples which together weighed 730 grams. Where is the missing 27grams of weight. Is it because I'm swinging the bag and it has added energy as centrifugal force? There is energy or substance in there which can put a depression into a pillow equivalent to one kilo of weight. But I have not other way of knowing what it is - just this mysterious evidence that something intangible is there, known only by the fact that something is missing. Since I'm a lay person I have no idea whether I've understood the concept correctly, but I hope I soon find out.
I hope you will post your thesis in question here for all to see and comment, as I'm sure there are quite a few minds in aM who have the capacity to understand it. I'm looking forward to a massive brain teaser. )
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