Re: Dark matter, antimatter, Pioneer slowing down, and so forth.

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 07/03/04


Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:48:00 -0700

Neodymium wrote:
>
> Occurred to me seeing a depiction of our galaxy embedded in an invisible
> mist of dark matter... What if normal matter doesn't even really exist?
> What if what we think of as normal matter is really just a perturbed,
> excited state of the dark matter substrate?

Idiot.
 
> The dark matter could be like a semiconductor, feeling gravity and a
> unified force.

Sub-idiot.

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http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205059
 Pioneer anomaly
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0307042
 Rationalized Pioneer anomaly
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810085
 Believable rationalized Pioneer anomaly
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/gr-qc/0310088
 Believable Pioneer anomaly updated

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403292
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310723
 WMAP + Sloane Digital Sky Survey
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404175
 Dark matter candidates
<http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll/frames.html>
 Carroll on what it all means.

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