Re: Dark matter/energy - is it real?


"Wayne Throop" <throopw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: It interacts just fine via gravitation, but we don't see its effects
: locally. Stars don't move as if they were 6x heavier than we think
: they are.

But "stars 6x heavier than we think they are" isn't part of the model,


Actually it is. 6x the mass we know about is supposedly dark matter.
According to theory it interacts gravitationally just like anything else.

Observation isn't consistent with the mass shadowing regular matter, we'd
just think regular matter was 6x denser. It isn't distributed in a halo
around stars, or a cloud encompassing stars, the planets don't orbit right
for that.



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