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The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« on: March 04, 2018, 05:37:25 am »

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In our previous episode, we introduced a potential scientific breakthrough that could have profound implications for all of cosmology, eliminating the perceived need for dark matter. In a new scientific paper entitled Birkeland Currents and Dark Matter, scheduled for publication in April of this year, Dr. Donald E. Scott proposes that his model of the Birkeland Current may finally explain anomalous stellar velocity profiles, with no need for dark matter. In this episode, Dr. Scott summarizes his new paper, beginning with a summary of his previous findings on the Birkeland current’s structure. PDF of Dr. Scott's new paper, "Birkeland Currents and Dark Matter":
  http://www.ptep-online.com/2018/PP-53-01.PDF

I find this very conceptually and emotionally satisfying. The whole 'galaxy rotation profiles are not Newtonian, so let's make up invisible fairies' rubbish has been annoying for a long time. Hope this interpretation goes somewhere.

But I'm not counting on it.  Cosmologists seem to be almost completely blind to electromagnetics, electrostatics and plasma physics. "Gravity, gravity, gravity, and nothing but gravity!" Bah.
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2018, 05:54:22 am »
I won't pretend to actually understand any of these theories, but rumor has it that a new evidence for dark matter just surfaced...
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2018, 02:22:21 pm »
Okay so he draws a graph that says f(x), another graph that says g(x), says f(x) ~= g(x), and therefore it must be true?

Crap science at best.

Basic, embarrassingly fundamental questions that immediately arise:
- Space is pretty goddamn neutral.  Where is this current?  Why have we not measured it?
- How is the current acting upon very large masses (stars, clusters)?  Even if such a current exists, it's only acting upon the interstellar plasma. There must be a new mechanism to link that motion to the very dense objects floating within it.
- Where is the outward-flowing reaction mass?  Even if all of the above happens, there must be a truly astronomical amount of plasma being farted out, radially, in order to keep pushing all those stars towards the center.  Calculate the reaction mass required.  Assume outflow velocity 0.2c just for optimism.  How long will a 10^12 solar mass galaxy live for, until its mass is completely evaporated away?

If you don't have the decency -- or basic understanding of science and physics -- to supply these answers, you're going to be labeled a crackpot.  Simple as that, put up or shut up. ;)

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2018, 04:03:31 pm »
Please no! Not more woowoo.....
 
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2018, 06:52:15 pm »
Okay so he draws a graph that says f(x), another graph that says g(x), says f(x) ~= g(x), and therefore it must be true?

Crap science at best.

Basic, embarrassingly fundamental questions that immediately arise:
- Space is pretty goddamn neutral.  Where is this current?  Why have we not measured it?
- How is the current acting upon very large masses (stars, clusters)?  Even if such a current exists, it's only acting upon the interstellar plasma. There must be a new mechanism to link that motion to the very dense objects floating within it.
- Where is the outward-flowing reaction mass?  Even if all of the above happens, there must be a truly astronomical amount of plasma being farted out, radially, in order to keep pushing all those stars towards the center.  Calculate the reaction mass required.  Assume outflow velocity 0.2c just for optimism.  How long will a 10^12 solar mass galaxy live for, until its mass is completely evaporated away?

If you don't have the decency -- or basic understanding of science and physics -- to supply these answers, you're going to be labeled a crackpot.  Simple as that, put up or shut up. ;)

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Well in one minute you convinced me that Einstein's greatest blunder still isn't his greatest blunder. Dark matter seems too well studied to not be real. I try not to get close minded in my thinking but didn't they once think neutron stars could be explained by plasma or something like that. I would love to see what a 20 mile wide atomic nucleus looks like.
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2018, 06:58:34 pm »
Well, this doesn't have much to do with Einstein.  We're not talking black holes, and galaxies are rather small compared to the visible universe.

Though, speaking of, black holes (large and small) will necessarily be among the objects that need to be influenced, and as the most compact astronomical objects, it will be very difficult indeed to push them with anything but gravity.

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2018, 07:01:05 pm »
Well, this doesn't have much to do with Einstein.  We're not talking black holes, and galaxies are rather small compared to the visible universe.

Though, speaking of, black holes (large and small) will necessarily be among the objects that need to be influenced, and as the most compact astronomical objects, it will be very difficult indeed to push them with anything but gravity.

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I thought the cosmological constant was dark matter; Einstein greatest blunder. No? black holes was just a reference to things we would never think of unless we saw their math.
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2018, 07:12:35 pm »
Well, this doesn't have much to do with Einstein.  We're not talking black holes, and galaxies are rather small compared to the visible universe.

Though, speaking of, black holes (large and small) will necessarily be among the objects that need to be influenced, and as the most compact astronomical objects, it will be very difficult indeed to push them with anything but gravity.

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I thought the cosmological constant was dark matter; Einstein greatest blunder. No? black holes was just a reference to things we would never think of unless we saw their math.

You're thinking of dark energy, the property of universal expansion.  Or more precisely, its change over time, I think?

AFAIK, Einstein put a hack in the original field equations, to allow for a static universe, or one expanding or contracting as the case may be (depending on value).  This turned out not to be needed, when the FLRW metric was found and fitted to the universe as we know it.  But then further fitting discovered such a hack to be necessary (and poorly justified).

Einstein's other notable contributions to astronomy include the precession of Mercury (time dilation due to gravity well), gravitational lensing (both of which were early confirmations of Relativity, thanks to some precise astronomical observations) and relativistic jets (the observation of which can imply superluminal velocity, unless Relativity is taken into account).

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2018, 10:05:11 am »
Well, this doesn't have much to do with Einstein.  We're not talking black holes, and galaxies are rather small compared to the visible universe.

Though, speaking of, black holes (large and small) will necessarily be among the objects that need to be influenced, and as the most compact astronomical objects, it will be very difficult indeed to push them with anything but gravity.

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I thought the cosmological constant was dark matter; Einstein greatest blunder. No? black holes was just a reference to things we would never think of unless we saw their math.

You're thinking of dark energy, the property of universal expansion.  Or more precisely, its change over time, I think?

AFAIK, Einstein put a hack in the original field equations, to allow for a static universe, or one expanding or contracting as the case may be (depending on value).  This turned out not to be needed, when the FLRW metric was found and fitted to the universe as we know it.  But then further fitting discovered such a hack to be necessary (and poorly justified).

Einstein's other notable contributions to astronomy include the precession of Mercury (time dilation due to gravity well), gravitational lensing (both of which were early confirmations of Relativity, thanks to some precise astronomical observations) and relativistic jets (the observation of which can imply superluminal velocity, unless Relativity is taken into account).

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So the jets appear to be going faster then light but when you take into account the spacetime is curved that it passes through, the speeds are sub luminal. I can't believe I mixed up dark energy and matter. Duh! I find the fact that we didn't detect any light dark matter troubling. I want to think it's actual stuff that we can find a use for. Too bad it doesn't clump I like the idea of a dark matter world filled with aliens walking through us wondering what the missing 5% of the universe is. The weak force is the most fascinating of the four.
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« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2018, 10:39:21 am »
I just love scientists. First they measure and confirm acceleration of universe expansion using method that is full of assumptions so they can continue their existence by researching cause of acceleration. Could you imagine that all those billions of research are spent believing that "type 1a supernovae all have almost the same intrinsic brightness"? I find it truly amazing.
 

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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2018, 11:39:55 am »
Science is amazing, the humans are even more amazing animals and social norms are the most amazing.  >:D
 

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« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2018, 11:01:02 am »
I just love scientists. First they measure and confirm acceleration of universe expansion using method that is full of assumptions so they can continue their existence by researching cause of acceleration. Could you imagine that all those billions of research are spent believing that "type 1a supernovae all have almost the same intrinsic brightness"? I find it truly amazing.

It's the best worst theory we have. Like democracy. Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep sitting at the dinner table taking a vote on what to have for dinner. Grass is not on the menu.
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2018, 09:34:54 pm »
Dark matter is the future and contains all energy, we just need to figure out a way to harness it.  Combined with solar roadways and the batteriser we will solve the world energy problem and put the oil companies out of business!  >:D
 

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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2018, 10:04:21 pm »
I just love scientists. First they measure and confirm acceleration of universe expansion using method that is full of assumptions so they can continue their existence by researching cause of acceleration. Could you imagine that all those billions of research are spent believing that "type 1a supernovae all have almost the same intrinsic brightness"? I find it truly amazing.

Are you asserting that 1a supernovae don't have almost the same intrinsic brightness? You have data to refute the data used to come to the accepted conclusion?

I just live ignorant naysayers who think they can negate anything just by ridiculing it without any basis except for false founded sup[superiority complex.
 

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« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2018, 12:56:57 am »
the problem with this world is too many bright intelligent scientists that can make theories out of nothing, instead of doing real work in physics lab.. presenting their findings in eevblog forum..
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I just love scientists. First they measure and confirm acceleration of universe expansion using method that is full of assumptions so they can continue their existence by researching cause of acceleration. Could you imagine that all those billions of research are spent believing that "type 1a supernovae all have almost the same intrinsic brightness"? I find it truly amazing.

Are you asserting that 1a supernovae don't have almost the same intrinsic brightness? You have data to refute the data used to come to the accepted conclusion?

I just live ignorant naysayers who think they can negate anything just by ridiculing it without any basis except for false founded sup[superiority complex.

I have to agree.

Astronomers and cosmologists will have come to that determination from a disciplined approach and subsequent evidence that I am sure will be detailed somewhere if anyone cares to look.

Ridicule without the demonstration of any sort of discipline or evidence is simply an embarrassment.
 

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« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2018, 02:19:31 am »


I'll just leave this here.... :-//
 

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I'll just leave this here.... :-//

Guys, come on. Let's try not to publicly embarrass ourselves here in front of the entire internet.

Thousands of independent astronomers, physicists, engineers, and technicians have worked their entire lives on this problem; to ignore their conclusions and dismiss them out of hand because somebody with one functioning brain cell and a YouTube channel has been "compiling evidence" to the contrary for 5 years is crazy.

If you really want to understand dark matter and actually contribute to the debate in an intelligent and well informed manner, why not get a proper education, actually study the subject, read all the papers (yes, they number in the thousands), and undertake the painstaking process of actually doing the research? Then you can make your own YouTube channel and fill it with actual facts instead of arguing about things that you haven't taken the time to study in detail.
 
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2018, 06:15:09 am »
Anthony Perrat of Los Alamos Labs, Hannes Alfven (discoverer of Alfven waves, check out this article from 1978: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978Ap%26SS..54..279A - ), Kristian Birkeland (discoverer of the currents that bear his name) are just a few of the names of very eminent scientists who have spent decades, lifetimes even, against the stream of accepted scientific wisdom with regards the electrical nature of many astronomical phenomena - only to be ultimately vindicated. All of them were experimental scientists, not theoreticians or mathematicians, and plasma cosmology is making concrete predictions (see Wal Thornhill's predictions on what any of the Mavern, Juno, Rosetta or cassini missions would find as a prime example), while the theorizing is being left up to electrical engineers like Don Scott. (http://www.ptep-online.com/2015/PP-41-13.PDF) Here's his model for Birkeland currents that, in my opinion, goes a long way toward addressing one of the main issues mainstream science has with the idea of an 'electric universe': charge separation in space. Voyager encountering 'magnetic foam' instead of the interstellar vacuum wasn't enough to make most wonder, but here a few recent articles from the mainstream literature that show that not just disembodied magnetic fields exist in space (and here's me thinking that folks here would be ready to listen to the idea of magnetic fields and electric currents being as inseparable in space as they are on Earth. Huh.) but also electric currents..... although quite often terms like "charge-carrying filamentary structure..." get used to describe them:

https://www.universetoday.com/29770/new-image-of-jet-driven-galactic-shock-wave-is-a-shocker/
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/360/4/1545/1747527
https://phys.org/news/2017-04-cassini-voyager-missions-picture-sun.html
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9781461478188-c1.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1488334-p175232497
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1988Ap%26SS.144...73C
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2131889-weird-energy-beam-seems-to-travel-five-times-the-speed-of-light/
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel1/27/1720/00045503.pdf (Synchrotron radiation spectrum for galactic-sized plasma filaments )

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« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2018, 12:03:42 pm »
Ridicule without the demonstration of any sort of discipline or evidence is simply an embarrassment.

Embarrassment is when data from real probe does not meet theoretical model evidence :) It even sounds weird: "theoretical evidence", but this is how theoretical scientists work. And this is why I am not scientist.
 

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« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2018, 12:32:32 am »
- Space is pretty goddamn neutral.  Where is this current?  Why have we not measured it?

No it isn't. Space is full of really massive ion flows. What do you think the 'solar wind' is? CMEs? Auroras, visible on Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, etc. Google 'electric Universe comets' for some more interesting stuff. Take a look at detail surface pics of the dumbell comet, and notice the obvious signs of electro-machining.

The common idea that charge distributes evenly in space is very ignorant. There are far more complicated effects, including Birkeland currents, pinch efects, double-wall charge layers, etc. Even commonly heard phrases such as 'magnetic field lines breaking and reconnecting' are ridiculous ignorant twaddle. Most astrophysicists seem to have no understanding of basic electromagnetics and plasma physics at all.
The way they describe things, simple neon bulbs would be a complete mystery. Does the electrostatic field from the electrodes distribute evenly across the space between them? No, it doesn't. It virtually all concentrates in a thin layer around one of the electrodes, hence that's where the glow appears.


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- How is the current acting upon very large masses (stars, clusters)?  Even if such a current exists, it's only acting upon the interstellar plasma. There must be a new mechanism to link that motion to the very dense objects floating within it.

You do realise that stars are highly electrostatically charged bodies? They self-develop net charge imbalance with the net charge on surrounding interstellar plasma. Charged stars move through the plasma, which has magnetic field embedded in it and anchored by the mobile ions of the plasma. Net ultra-large scale electric currents have a lot of energy, and the magnetic fields are of course part of that. Like any other charged particle moving in a magnetic field, stars will feel a net force.
The 'no dark matter' suggestion is that THIS is the cause of stellar trajectories not complying with predictions considering gravity alone. But the details of the physics involved are going to be *very* complicated, due to complex behavior of heliospheres, charge hiding behind double-wall layers, relativistic effects, etc. Hence the lack of a complete model, just a suggestion that this is a hopeful path of investigation. That doesn't involve making shit up, about unknown, invisible, mysteriously acting 'dark matter'.

Oh and btw, electrostatic forces are 10^39 stronger than gravitational forces, proton to electron. Same at macro scales. This is not intuitive to us, because we live in an environment in which charges mostly DO equalise, so we very rarely directly experience electrostatic/EM forces of any significant magnitude. But this is not true in macro-plasma environments such as deep space.


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- Where is the outward-flowing reaction mass?  Even if all of the above happens, there must be a truly astronomical amount of plasma being farted out, radially, in order to keep pushing all those stars towards the center.  Calculate the reaction mass required.  Assume outflow velocity 0.2c just for optimism.  How long will a 10^12 solar mass galaxy live for, until its mass is completely evaporated away?

And yet you happily accept the idea of dark matter?
Where is the 'reaction mass' that deflects electron beams in a CRT?
Note that compared to the distances between galaxies, the actual galaxies are very small. And we know next to nothing about the plasma, charge and magnetic structures between galaxies. You've seen illustrations of what we know about large scale structure of space, and the way galaxy clusters seem to be strung like strings through the largely empty volumes? Why is that?

Those saying 'dark matter must be real, because hundreds of scientists have built their careers on its study' are pretty amusing.
An example: hundreds of scientists have built their careers on the principle that CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere is the primary regulator of Earth's surface temperature.
Here's a relevant chart.

It happens to be one I came across around 2007. Before which I was a firm believer in the CO2/Warming story. The chart prompted me to start checking out some things...  Because either it's incorrect, or the CO2 story is false. Let's not divert into that. But do think about it, and maybe start doing your own checking. My point here is that Science is NOT a concensus voting game. And those who pretend it is, are generally pretty mixed up on other things too.
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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2018, 04:47:26 am »
- Space is pretty goddamn neutral.  Where is this current?  Why have we not measured it?

No it isn't. Space is full of really massive ion flows. What do you think the 'solar wind' is? CMEs? Auroras, visible on Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, etc. Google 'electric Universe comets' for some more interesting stuff. Take a look at detail surface pics of the dumbell comet, and notice the obvious signs of electro-machining.

Which one?  67P?  Just looks like a pile of ice and rocks.  Apparently it very likely formed as the low velocity collision of two cometoids, but there's absolutely no reason to suspect something quite that specific.

Also, there would be NASA studies of "electromachining" on a scale far more massive than is seen.

They study it, sure; https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NP-2015-03-015-JSC_Space_Environment-ISS-Mini-Book-2015-508.pdf comes up on top of a search.  But it's minuscule.

If solar wind were strong enough to atomize whole km's of cometary surfaces, there would be no dust, or smaller (<1km) asteroids left.

Space is rough, but it's not that rough!

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The common idea that charge distributes evenly in space is very ignorant. There are far more complicated effects, including Birkeland currents, pinch efects, double-wall charge layers, etc. Even commonly heard phrases such as 'magnetic field lines breaking and reconnecting' are ridiculous ignorant twaddle. Most astrophysicists seem to have no understanding of basic electromagnetics and plasma physics at all.
The way they describe things, simple neon bulbs would be a complete mystery. Does the electrostatic field from the electrodes distribute evenly across the space between them? No, it doesn't. It virtually all concentrates in a thin layer around one of the electrodes, hence that's where the glow appears.

That's exactly what I'm saying.  Thank you!  Plasma is conductive, thus shorting out the electric field basically everywhere.

The most charge separation that is possible, is the maximum particle energy emitted by a given body.  A few million volts, say.  For something that contains ~10^50 particles, like a star, that's, well -- astronomical balance!

(A boundary layer is characteristic of cool plasmas, where the gas recombines and only low energy ions and electrons interact with the conductor.  With much higher energies, lower densities, and no way for the plasma to recombine near a surface, I wouldn't think this is relevant here.  Maybe a similar effect could be produced in a contrived setup, like a magnetic funnel, and some way to pump energy out of the plasma near it?)


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That doesn't involve making shit up, about unknown, invisible, mysteriously acting 'dark matter'.

Gosh, you must really have a lot at stake here, to have such a strong opinion about it.

What's wrong with making things up?  I do it all the time.  Then I fit theory to it and see if it matches the data or hypothesis.  Seems to work well for me, and the century or three of other scientists out there.

That seems to be the critical step, forming a cohesive data-hypothesis-theory system.  Wouldn't you say?

Throwing out uselessly complicated, contrived, and poorly justified theories is also an important step.  There are infinite ways to tackle any given problem -- the best is the one that is easiest to work with.

Example: planetary motion.

You can describe the motion, to arbitrary accuracy, with finite series of epicycles.  That's a valid description, sure -- or really, more merely an encoding of the data.  It doesn't provide any insight into their behavior, why the planets move the way they do.  (Aside from the motion generally being circular, though that too is far from a necessity, as many examples show.)

Someone invented a siderocentric system, relatively recently (mid 2000s was it?).  And it was horrendously complicated (I don't remember if it's just epicycles anyway, or what, or if there's a trivial transformation to Kepler's laws that makes working in such a domain purely Sisyphean), so that even if it's nontrivial, it's the last thing you would ever want to actually work in.

Whereas Kepler's laws are simple, concise and very practical.  A few astronomical observations, a few pushes on the slide rule, and you've got reasonable predictions for the paths of celestial objects.  A few tweaks on statistical methods (like Gauss predicting the orbit of Ceres) and you've got almost everything.  If you need extremely precise predictions (down to the second, or out to millenia), a little relativity can be brought in -- accounting for the precession of Mercury, or the timing of GPS satellites, say.


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Oh and btw, electrostatic forces are 10^39 stronger than gravitational forces, proton to electron. Same at macro scales. This is not intuitive to us, because we live in an environment in which charges mostly DO equalise, so we very rarely directly experience electrostatic/EM forces of any significant magnitude. But this is not true in macro-plasma environments such as deep space.

This is a meaningless statement.

Nothing is stronger than gravity.  I've never heard of an electron and proton clacking together so hard they ripped a hole in space time.

The 10^39 figure bandied about in the popular press is a special case, for a certain scale factor (I forget what, probably particle-scale interactions).  It's as meaningless as the supposed 10^120 discrepancy in vacuum energy, which is similarly easily debunked (if not to complete equality, mind -- a difference perhaps hinting at further science that may explain dark matter, or a GUT).


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- Where is the outward-flowing reaction mass?  Even if all of the above happens, there must be a truly astronomical amount of plasma being farted out, radially, in order to keep pushing all those stars towards the center.  Calculate the reaction mass required.  Assume outflow velocity 0.2c just for optimism.  How long will a 10^12 solar mass galaxy live for, until its mass is completely evaporated away?

And yet you happily accept the idea of dark matter?

I like how you, ahem, "deflect" from answering my easily calculated problem; in the process, implying that I am the one with an irrational affinity for an incomplete theory...

I have an estimate for the answer to this problem, by the way; I'd be interested to see others' SWAGs on it.  Anyone? :)

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Where is the 'reaction mass' that deflects electron beams in a CRT?

The magnetic yoke or deflection plates, of course.  The electromagnetic field of the beam causes a small but nonetheless present deformation of the ambient fields, pushing back.  Or if you prefer a quantum view, the virtual photons from the spinning charge carriers in the magnet deliver momentum.

Note that no such force occurs if the beam is neutral, e.g., an equal mixture of electrons and protons travelling at ~1MeV average velocity.  The components will separate in opposite directions, giving no net force on the yoke*.

*For small angles. I can think of situations where this is not true; can you? :)


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Note that compared to the distances between galaxies, the actual galaxies are very small. And we know next to nothing about the plasma, charge and magnetic structures between galaxies. You've seen illustrations of what we know about large scale structure of space, and the way galaxy clusters seem to be strung like strings through the largely empty volumes? Why is that?

I'm glad you asked!  Because none of that mess was ever taken into account* in whole-universe simulations, yet they produce exactly the structure observed!

https://youtu.be/NjSFR40SY58

*http://www.illustris-project.org/about/ doesn't mention anything about plasma or currents.

Mind, I'm not saying those currents don't exist.  I'm saying, even if they do, they are insignificant compared to the dominant gravitational force at work, which itself, does not produce the correct results alone -- but when a model of dark matter is included, the result is striking.  (It seems unlikely that we'll ever have much need of considering such high-order effects.  If humanity is around for long enough to see their sun complete even a single orbit in its galaxy -- whichever sun and galaxy that might happen to be -- I won't be mad, I'll be very well impressed, indeed!)

Dark matter isn't explained with an underlying theory, no.  Perhaps that will come in time.  One is not given the data-hypothesis-theory trifecta from heaven.  It is built up over time!

Anyway, ultimate understanding is not needed to obtain something that is nonetheless practical to use!  I don't see you referring to quantum electrodynamics every time you want to measure the voltage (whatever that is) on a transistor (whatever that is). :D

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Those saying 'dark matter must be real, because hundreds of scientists have built their careers on its study' are pretty amusing.
An example: hundreds of scientists have built their careers on the principle that CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere is the primary regulator of Earth's surface temperature.
Here's a relevant chart.

It happens to be one I came across around 2007. Before which I was a firm believer in the CO2/Warming story. The chart prompted me to start checking out some things...  Because either it's incorrect, or the CO2 story is false. Let's not divert into that. But do think about it, and maybe start doing your own checking. My point here is that Science is NOT a concensus voting game. And those who pretend it is, are generally pretty mixed up on other things too.

Indeed, science is not built on consensus (and that which is, ain't science).

Science is built on numbers, on measurement, on reason.

So, hey -- where's that reaction mass going, anyway? ;D

Also, you're making the implication, for the second time, that I somehow have my reputation or livelihood staked on the truth of dark matter, or something like that.  I don't much appreciate having words put in my mouth, thank you.

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2018, 05:42:33 am »
Personally Im keen on dark matter or rather unexplained gravity wells being deeply linked with the expansion of the universe and the fact we live in an asymmetrical one.  If membrane or multi dimensional/universe physics pan out it could be something as simple as areas where multi verses are interacting with each other like two people on opposite sides of a balloon.
 

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2018, 06:25:19 am »
Take a look at detail surface pics of the dumbell comet, and notice the obvious signs of electro-machining.

Which one?  67P?  Just looks like a pile of ice and rocks.  Apparently it very likely formed as the low velocity collision of two cometoids, but there's absolutely no reason to suspect something quite that specific.

Also, there would be NASA studies of "electromachining" on a scale far more massive than is seen.

They study it, sure; https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NP-2015-03-015-JSC_Space_Environment-ISS-Mini-Book-2015-508.pdf comes up on top of a search.  But it's minuscule.

If solar wind were strong enough to atomize whole km's of cometary surfaces, there would be no dust, or smaller (<1km) asteroids left.

Space is rough, but it's not that rough!

No I didn't mean at a large scale with 67P/dumbell. Small surface features. Not sure if I have any images saved. But they do look exactly like lab experiments in surface erosion via high electric field and ion flux. I'll see if I can find them.

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That's exactly what I'm saying.  Thank you!  Plasma is conductive, thus shorting out the electric field basically everywhere.
"Plasma is conductive" - true.
 "shorting out electric field basically everywhere" - not true. Please read up some more on this. I know you are a very knowledgeable expert in many things, but you're apparently not so hot in plasma effects. Not saying I am either, but I do read widely on the topic.
To 'short the field' ions have to move. In moving they create magnetic fields.  This has countering effects on the ion movement, and the ion's own space charge affects the imposed field. It gets very complicated. Please look up 'double layers' in plasma. If this stuff was simple, NASA's 'space tether' experiment would have worked as expected.

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The most charge separation that is possible, is the maximum particle energy emitted by a given body.  A few million volts, say.  For something that contains ~10^50 particles, like a star, that's, well -- astronomical balance!
The charge difference between the Earth's surface, and surrounding plasma, is on that order. The atmosphere is the insulator. I can't wait till someone actually tries hanging a space elevator cable through the atmosphere.
Also there's evidence that charge difference has quite a lot of effect on weather. As for the Sun, yes, astronomical imbalance.

Btw, for relatively tiny objects like comets, have you noticed that the old myth about them being 'icy bodies' just isn't holding up? All the ones we've actually looked at are very rocky, little or no ice. The 'ice' was assumed because of spectral OH lines from the coma, and the need to explain the tail. The electric universe version is that comets take on the charge of deep space in the outer parts of their orbit. Then are undergoing glow discharge and ion surface blasting while in the denser regions of solar wind. The OH seen is due to H ions striking rocks, releasing O ions from the rock, which then combines with more H solar wind.

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(A boundary layer is characteristic of cool plasmas, where the gas recombines and only low energy ions and electrons interact with the conductor.  With much higher energies, lower densities, and no way for the plasma to recombine near a surface, I wouldn't think this is relevant here.  Maybe a similar effect could be produced in a contrived setup, like a magnetic funnel, and some way to pump energy out of the plasma near it?)
You're neglecting the concept of mean free path. Plasma effects all scale.

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That doesn't involve making shit up, about unknown, invisible, mysteriously acting 'dark matter'.

Gosh, you must really have a lot at stake here, to have such a strong opinion about it.

Ha ha, no, I just don't mind expressing myself in strong words. So far no one has come up with a single shred of actual experimental evidence for dark matter/dark energy. Such a huge amount of theorizing, with no basis other than the one unexplained thing (galactic rotational anomaly) that they're struggling to explain, is something I find inherently deserving of cynicism and ridicule. I was willing to go with it for a while, years ago when the idea was first raised. Since then it's just become farcical.

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What's wrong with making things up?  I do it all the time.  Then I fit theory to it and see if it matches the data or hypothesis.  Seems to work well for me, and the century or three of other scientists out there. That seems to be the critical step, forming a cohesive data-hypothesis-theory system.  Wouldn't you say?
Of course! It's good to believe several impossible things before breakfast. It's the 'it's invisible, that's why we can't find any evidence of it, because it's so very invisible' part that makes this one special.

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Throwing out uselessly complicated, contrived, and poorly justified theories is also an important step.  There are infinite ways to tackle any given problem -- the best is the one that is easiest to work with.
And dark matter is due to be thrown out, due to continued lack of evidence. Bit like 'muh Russian collusion.'

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Example: planetary motion.
Heh. More relevant than you think. A religious belief-based 'explanation' (Epicycles/Dark Matter) with no functional basis and poor predictive power, was thankfully displaced by a sensible experimentally verifiable theory based on a general physical theory. Near perfect predictive power, improved to perfect by Relativity. I did say "I hope this develops" about the electric universe approach to galactic star velocities. It strikes me as something with a lot more potential for investigation.



Oh and btw, electrostatic forces are 10^39 stronger than gravitational forces, proton to electron. Same at macro scales. This is not intuitive to us, because we live in an environment in which charges mostly DO equalise, so we very rarely directly experience electrostatic/EM forces of any significant magnitude. But this is not true in macro-plasma environments such as deep space.

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- Where is the outward-flowing reaction mass?  Even if all of the above happens, there must be a truly astronomical amount of plasma being farted out, radially, in order to keep pushing all those stars towards the center.  Calculate the reaction mass required.  Assume outflow velocity 0.2c just for optimism.  How long will a 10^12 solar mass galaxy live for, until its mass is completely evaporated away?

There isn't any, at least not near the stars. I gave the CRT example, because it's a case of an external structure applying a known simple force (E or M fields) to deflect charged, moving mass. And that's exactly what the EU theory is proposing is happening with galactic rotation velocities. A really large current and associated M field, all externally sourced, is deflecting star trajectories.

Something I would like to see, is star velocity study of globular galaxies. Since, the unaligned star trajectories there wouldn't be susceptible to uniform deflection by an external current & field.

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I like how you, ahem, "deflect" from answering my easily calculated problem, in the process, implying that I am the one with an irrational affinity for an incomplete theory. :)
Not 'deflecting' (heh) from it. Just saying that there is no 'thrust by mass ejection' occurring, and trying to get you to see why it's not needed. Because 'larger external systems' that can impose EM forces.

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Where is the 'reaction mass' that deflects electron beams in a CRT?
The magnetic yoke or deflection plates, of course.  The electromagnetic field of the beam causes a small but nonetheless present deformation of the ambient fields, pushing back.
Note that no such force occurs if the beam is neutral, e.g., an equal mixture of electrons and protons travelling at ~1MeV average velocity.  The components will separate in opposite directions, giving no net force on the yoke*.
*For small angles. I can think of situations where this is not true; can you? :)

Of course. Net kinetic vector of the particle beam is altered. Yoke has corresponding net counter force.

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Note that compared to the distances between galaxies, the actual galaxies are very small. And we know next to nothing about the plasma, charge and magnetic structures between galaxies. You've seen illustrations of what we know about large scale structure of space, and the way galaxy clusters seem to be strung like strings through the largely empty volumes? Why is that?

I'm glad you asked!  Because none of that mess was ever taken into account* in whole-universe simulations, yet they produce exactly the structure observed!

https://youtu.be/NjSFR40SY58

Ahem. You did notice that simulation critically includes Dark Matter? Which, since no one knows what it is or how it behaves, means they have a tweek knob on their simulation that they can twist until it produces results that roughly match the seen distribution of matter.
Not saying this disproves dark matter, just that it's somewhat circular.

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*http://www.illustris-project.org/about/ doesn't mention anything about plasma or currents.
When to be realistic, it should.

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Mind, I'm not saying those currents don't exist.  I'm saying, even if they do, they are insignificant compared to the dominant gravitational force at work, which itself, does not produce the correct results alone -- but when a model of dark matter is included, the result is striking.
The match is not surprising, since when making up a model to match the visible system, you can fiddle the model till it does match very closely. Somewhat like epicycles. But you do at some point have to come up with an explanation of what the little arms actually are.

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Dark matter isn't explained with an underlying theory, no.  Perhaps that will come in time.  One is not given the data-hypothesis-theory trifecta from heaven.  It is built up over time!
Sure. I've just lost patience with it.

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Also, you're making the implication, for the second time, that I somehow have my reputation or livelihood staked on the truth of dark matter, or something like that.  I don't much appreciate having words put in my mouth, thank you.

What? This time? Where? And what other time?
No such implication was ever intended. I have nothing but the greatest respect for your expertise, always.
I was just responding to your pretty strong rubbishing of my original post, in which I say I don't like the Dark Matter theory (didn't specify reasons) and this version seems more interesting to pursue.

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Re: The demise of Dark Matter? (At last)
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2018, 02:50:09 pm »
Dark matter and dark energy have one thing in common. They are both dark , Hmmm . Dark as in can not be seen. Science does better when it follows empirical evidence that can be seen and measured not dark mysterious demons hiding in the grass . I realize I am making cheap shot sweeping generalizations but that word dark brings to mind lazy star trek solutions. Real physics requires a little elbow grease. If one wants to know what is under a rock you have to get out there and lift the rock. Arm chair intellectual speculation of what is under the rock is just a lazy ego trip with 10 dollar college words better suited for tea parties with a baby finger in the air. It is boring work to the wee hours setting up test equipment that finds the answer.
 


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