Hey I just figured out what dark matter is!!!

[MoeMag]

[snoopay700]

I have a problem with dark matter, it just doesn't make sense really lol. I dunno, it's fun to mess around with and everything, but when it comes to plausibility, string theory is where it's at. That explains why our universe is the way it is and why it defies logic a lot better than dark matter, although both can't be proven really.

Sorry, it's late, and i'm tired, need to get up in 5 hours to take my older brother paintballing for the first time, i'll read your post later and comment on it then, i just figured i had to say my stance on dark matter.

[MoeMag]

Oops. I just figured out why it wont work! lol well sort of... IDK that is assuming that I stick with the simple definition of gravity that seems to work. E-cookie to who figures it out my oops, and a nobel prize to who ever tells me why it wont matte(r).

[LK-13]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/16/scispeed116.xml

the speed of light may not be an absolute.
this would change your results.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/FTL.html#21

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/482

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/epfd-ltt081905.php

[Hilltop Customs]

wrong because your assuming e=mc^2 is a 2 way street? ie: if you have so much energy it is equivalent to some mass(and therefore has the same gravity of that mass). But there is no way to create mass from pure energy.

Or how about energy doesnt like to group together, look at the sun, massive amt of gravity, but the energy is still given off by the sun. Even black holes dont pull the energy given off by a nearby star, they pull the mass thats creating the energy off the nearby star. Only after the mass from the star is integrated into the black hole, the energy can no longer escape.

energy must have some gravity observing qualities, or you would see some given off by black holes, but that doesnt mean that energy has its own gravity.


i have no idea if thats right, but Ive always wanted an e-cookie

[MoeMag]

The black hole is called that because nothing can escape its gravitational pull... thats why they are black in every part of spectrum. we can only see the gas that is giving off energy that is beyond the event horizon, where some energy 'light' may still escape. so... that shows that energy cannot even escape gravity at a certain point. So I think thats a plus for me showing that they are related.

wrong because your assuming e=mc^2 is a 2 way street? ie: if you have so much energy it is equivalent to some mass(and therefore has the same gravity of that mass). But there is no way to create mass from pure energy.

[Avianrave]

I would be more impressed if you told me what makes a proton one charge, and an electron the opposite charge.

[LK-13]

The black hole is called that because nothing can escape its gravitational pull... thats why they are black in every part of spectrum. we can only see the gas that is giving off energy that is beyond the event horizon, where some energy 'light' may still escape. so... that shows that energy cannot even escape gravity at a certain point. So I think thats a plus for me showing that they are related.

actually this is no longer correct.
Steven Hawking discovered that Black Holes have a temperature. 3 degrees Kelvin. (really damned cold)
if a Black Hole has a measurable temperature it has to be emitting something.
Hawking was proved correct and the radiation coming out of Black Holes is now named after him;

Hawking Radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

[MoeMag]

I would be more impressed if you told me what makes a proton one charge, and an electron the opposite charge.

[MoeMag]

actually this is no longer correct.
Steven Hawking discovered that Black Holes have a temperature. 3 degrees Kelvin. (really damned cold)
if a Black Hole has a measurable temperature it has to be emitting something.
Hawking was proved correct and the radiation coming out of Black Holes is now named after him;

Hawking Radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

[neppo1345]

LHC goes online in 25 days...

Lets just wait...ehh?

[ThePixelGuru]

You think C is a constant, eh? There's a lot of tricks of relativity where C isn't C.

Take a light bulb, for instance. It releases photons in every direction. Pick two that are going opposite directions. Relative to the light bulb, both move at the speed of light, C. How fast does one photon move relative to the other?

Or, more concisely, if a man moving at the speed of light holds a mirror in front of him, can he see his reflection?