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There isn't much (or any) evidence that dark matter interacts with itself except through gravitation. When galaxies collide, their dark matter halos do interact, which has been observed . The halos around the Milky Way and Andromeda are not large enough to have come into contact yet, or for their t...

Jupiter's Stunning Southern Hemisphere SwRI | Juno | 2017 Nov 09 See Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 deg...

Start here: Dark Energy and the Metric Expansion of Space . The hyperlinks, references, footnotes, and external links should keep you busy for a while. From the link that bystander provided for the "Metric Expansion of Space:" "Metric expansion ... is modeled mathematically with the ...

The (pdf) Introduction to Mass Vortex Theory can be downloaded from this link: https://storage.googleapis.com/mass-vortex-theory.appspot.com/Mass-Vortex-Theory-Introduction.pdf It gives pages 1 -14. Pages 15-32 include information on the means of producing electrons and protons that are part of star...

I don't have the time to look into tired time. We'll know it's worth investing some study time when it passes sufficient peer review in mainstream journals and acquires a degree of consensus as a viable theory. A good rule for all non-specialists. You've decided that someone else is smarter than yo...

Before I can accept the the possibility of something like an "electron shield" being real I would have to have a few things explained, such as how could such a structure be produced and maintained when all these electrons are repelling each other :?: Bruce Bruce, Thank you for asking this...

Here is a direct link to the Introduction

https://storage.googleapis.com/mass-vor ... uction.pdf

Please provide comments.

I have discovered a surprising effect that I call an electron shield. If you get enough electrons spinning in a circle (in a thick enough disk), then the mass inside the circle is mostly cut off from the mass on the outside of the circle. Sally Okay .. so if the mass inside the circle is mostly cut...

I haven't read the research paper, Why? VARIABLE DYNAMICS IN THE INNER DISK OF HD 135344B REVEALED WITH MULTI-EPOCH SCATTERED LIGHT IMAGING Tomas Stolker, Mike Sitko,et al ABSTRACT We present multi-epoch Very Large Telescope/Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch observations of the ...

UW Researchers Ready for Era of "Big Data" Astronomy University of Washington | 2017 Nov 14 The first astronomers had a limited toolkit: their eyes. They could only observe those stars, planets and celestial events bright enough to pick up unassisted. But today’s astronomers use increasin...

I'm surprised to learn that an important instrument like this would be mounted in San Diego, which is NOT a high point and has light pollution. Is this for convenience to JPL? It is because of the availability of a large aperture, low focal length telescope at Palomar. There aren't many large Schmi...

The first thing I want to know with an astronomical image is what wave lengths I'm looking at, but this info is often buried or not offered. The detector is a typical silicon device, so its sensitivity covers the visible spectrum and near IR. The same technical page that gives the detector informat...

Wow! Thanks for this post. Good to know. The website says that one pixel is 15 microns, so does that mean that this instrument is observing in mid-infrared wavelengths? Or does the resolution of 1 pixel mean something else here? The first thing I want to know with an astronomical image is what wave ...

https://storage.googleapis.com/mass-vortex-theory.appspot.com/star-J1604_feb2013_Phys-org-scienceresul.jpg 5) Infrared image from Subaru Telescope shows a gap between the center area (that has a black cover over the bright central light) and the protostellar disk, with an arm of gas extending from ...

https://storage.googleapis.com/mass-vortex-theory.appspot.com/V883-Orionis-eso1626b_580.jpg 3) Young Star Object: V883 Orionis Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/L. Cieza The dark band in the middle of the disk is in the neighborhood of 35-70 au, based on visual inspection given the parameters of the ima...

Following are some more young star objects in progression of star system development. https://storage.googleapis.com/mass-vortex-theory.appspot.com/llpegspiral_121116_hubble_detail.jpg 1) Spiral AFGL 3068 in our galaxy [The line is a photographic artifact of a near-field star.] This image was taken ...

However, " heavy protoplanets " can project shadows onto this protoplanetary disk. According to the research paper that you reference in your first post says that the research is based on a spatial resolution of 6.4 au, that is 6.4 x 1.5 x 10^11 m = 9.6 x 10^11 m or about 1 x 10^12 m... p...

"Cutting off the gravitational force between two regions" certainly would go beyond classical physics, to the point of being a deal breaker, an impossibility IMO. However, overcoming the tiny force of gravity by using the much more powerful electromagnetic force is child's play. (We proba...

I thought about this more. I think that the scale between a planet and the protostellar disk beyond 1 au from the center, is like the relationship between a pea and the clouds in the sky. [How different is the atmosphere from the outer region of a protostellar disk?] We can see clouds, just like we ...

Gravitationally, that is. I take it that this is an idea that is non mainstream. I'm not raising it due to any belief of mine, except general curiosity. And hey, anti-gravity would be really cool. Bruce Bruce, Thank you for starting a separate thread on this. Given that an anti-particle has the sam...

The potential for images from the James Webb Space Telescope is very exciting. I am especially interested in more detailed images of young star objects and galaxies.

Pretto's theory was based on his hypothesis that a mass traveling at velocity v has the potential energy[6] (forza viva) proportional to mv2 (the exact formula is ½mv2). In the section of his paper headed Energy of the Ether and Potential Energy in Matter, De Pretto wrote: Matter uses and stores en...

Researchers made a case that planets (which are on the order of 10^4 km - 10^5 km wide) can affect large-scale modifications in a circumstellar disk which has a size on the order of 10^13 km to 10^14 km (80 au to 150 au). https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/spirals-dust-around-young-stars-may-betra...

universetoday wrote: " antigravity-could-replace-dark-energy-as-cause-of-universe-expansion" Well, I think that before we talk antigravity, we should know what gravity is. ( For me ), neither the theory of Newton, neither the General Relativity of Einstein, they do not explain well the gr...

Unsurprisingly, there is only so much that can be told in a post. If you are interested, however, the Introduction to my new theory covering planet and star formation (first 14 pages) is available here: http://massvortex.science/ There is a link to a pdf in the red section under the rotating images ...