'Dark matter' - now there's "such stuff as dreams are made on"

The articles at: Science Daily, support what I have been saying, big-time.

Neutrinos Are Likely Half as Massive as Previous Estimates Suggested
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100712115104.htm

"Although neutrinos are very light and interact with matter very rarely, they are so numerous that they can have a significant effect on the evolution of the material distribution in the universe.
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There are restrictions on the information the map can provide, in part because there are three varieties of neutrinos (electron, muon, and tau neutrinos), each of which likely have different masses. As a result, MegaZ can only estimate the sum of the three neutrino masses."

Yah, got it, they're these mystical 'particles' (and I use the word 'particles' loosely), 3-in-1, but can switch around and also exist on their own, pass through everything, apparently uninhibited, well almost, (not that I might draw a parallel with the 'Trinity' concept), but have mass - except we don't seem to be able to measure it, and apparently travel at the speed of light but also even faster but we don't seem to be able to measure its speed either.

Sounds like a perception problem to me.

I just wonder if they really want to 'solve' the mystery of the 'neutrino' - since then they would have one less 'Imp' and would leave the theory psychologically ungratifying, as if there were something missing - like Norse mythology without Loki

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Scientists Shed Light On a Mysterious Particle, the Neutrino
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215141512.htm


'Dr Di Lodovico says: "T2K will quickly advance our understanding of the strange properties of the enigmatic neutrino to unprecedented precision. Within a year, we will be able explore neutrino properties beyond the reach of the current experiments and shed light on the unknown."'

Dr. Di is talking in terms of 'Folklore' and I am surprised he, himself, didn't refer to them as 'Imps'


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"Dark matter" - now there's the stuff dreams are made of.

something like "anti-mater" i.e. opposite of matter

If 'anti-matter' didn't exist someone would invent it - how can you understand 'plus' without 'minus', 'male' without 'female', 'yin' without 'yang'.


Dark Matter May Be Lurking at Heart of the Sun
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721132407.htm

"Dark matter makes up more than 80 per cent of the total mass of the universe. We know that dark matter exists but to date it has never been produced in a laboratory or directly observed in any experiment, as a result we have very little information about what it actually is."


Now there's a mystery.

What they try to 'spin' into something positive: "We know that dark matter exists"

is in reality: dark matter is hypothesized in order to make the equations work.

Here's a hint from the article: "to date it has never been produced in a laboratory or directly observed in any experiment" - Oh, then I guess it must exist! It surely, then, couldn't be a figment of someone's imagination, a manifestation of some deep rooted primordial image hard-wired into our brains.


Check out Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

"In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is matter that neither emits nor scatters light or other electromagnetic radiation, and so cannot be directly detected via optical or radio astronomy.[1] Its existence is inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter and gravitational lensing of background radiation, and was originally hypothesized to account for discrepancies between calculations of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and calculations based on the mass of the visible "luminous" matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic medium."

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By the way, neutrino's were invented to make the equations work.

Now they have been "detected' - sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me.

Check out Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/neutrinos

"Pauli's proposal
The neutrino[nb 1] was first postulated in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli to preserve the conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and conservation of angular momentum in beta decay. This was done by adding an undetected particle that Pauli termed a "neutron" to the proton and electron already known to be products of beta decay:[4][nb 2]

He theorized that an undetected particle was carrying away the observed difference between the energy, momentum, and angular momentum of the initial and final particles."

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html