Re: About the evidence and relativity

From: Eric Gisse (fseggNOSPAM_at_uaf.edu)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:13:05 -0800

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:49:59 +0800, "Tom Potter" <tdp@earthlink.net>
wrote:

[snip]

>> >> >> Dark matter density has been mapped. Surprised the hell out of me,
>for
>> >> >> I thought gravity was broken at long range.
>> >> >
>> >> >Is this what you're talking about?
>> >> >
>> >> >http://www.space.com/news/cosmic_shear_000512.html
>> >>
>> >> Yes.
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >I think, what would be compelling to me, which probably isn't saying
>> >> >much, would be to see the dark matter density was mapped for our
>> >> >galaxy and contrasted to the density map of non-dark matter. If they
>> >> >look like two distinctly different maps, I could see how the
>> >> >suggestion that GR has been falsified could be easily dismissed.
>> >>
>> >> Not only GR, but newtonian dyanmics. If dark matter doesn't exist,
>> >> that picture could not exist. If dark matter doesn't exist, the 1/r^2
>> >> propogation law for gravity would be broken - which would be a
>> >> problem.
>> >
>> >Yes, that would be a "problem" for General Relativity,
>> >and classical gravitation theories.
>> >
>> >It seems to me to be a "problem" that should be addressed.
>>
>> [snip vauge wild assertions]
>
> [snip dogmatic, wild, unaddressed assertions]

Look!

http://www.space.com/news/cosmic_shear_000512.html

Don't be stupid.