Starship Asterisk*

astrolabe wrote:.

Maybe something like this is what you are looking for? :http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080917.html

I will check this out.

Thanks Astro - so, Dark Matter does not react with regular matter that we know of (except it is said by gravity) could DM be anti-matter?

does antimatter not interact with matter?

Hello makc,

I think they annihilate (spelling) each other.

If zillions of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles pass through the earth each second (I'm not saying whether or not they do), imagine if they were Anti-matter! Annihilation gives a whole new meaning to Weakly. If you think little things like cosmic rays will tear you up when you're beyond the protection of earth's magnetic benevolence, anti-matter will make you feel like Bonnie and Clyde at their farewell party.

I'm going to post my response on What is Dark Matter instead of here, as this thread is What is Science.

Meghnad Saha's paper 'Ionization in the solar chromosphere' was rejected by 'The Astrophysical Journal' but was pulished by 'Philiosophical Magazine'. "Some historians mark the beginning of modern astrophysics with the publication of Saha's ionization theory."
P. 99 Through a Universe Darkly by Marcia Bartusiak.

Philosophy anyone?

I'm leaving this forum for awhile .. the atmosphere has grown poisonous, and angers me, and I don't enjoy anger. I recommend the offenders here read 'Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science.' By Sheila Jones, Oxford University Press. Just out.

"In 1927 ten leading physicists ... ... Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Paul Ehrenfest, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Brogliea, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Pascual Jordan ... ... A quantum revolution that stalled ina a pressure cooker of tension, tragedy, betrayal."

Sound familiar?

Sputnick wrote:I'm leaving this forum for awhile

I almost feel good about it, sorry.