Vampire [any] to science • 5 months agoChina's new dark matter lab is biggest and deepest yetexternal-linkmessage-square8 fedilinkarrow-up132
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minus-squareOwl [he/him]hexbear2·5 months agoBullet cluster. I don't know why people are so resistant to the concept of dark matter. "There are particles that interact via gravity and no other forces" is not that outlandish of a hypothesis, and it fits a whole bunch of observed phenomena. link
minus-squarepuff [comrade/them]hexbear1·5 months agoThere have been papers explaining bullet cluster effects without invoking new particles. link
Bullet cluster.
I don't know why people are so resistant to the concept of dark matter. "There are particles that interact via gravity and no other forces" is not that outlandish of a hypothesis, and it fits a whole bunch of observed phenomena.
There have been papers explaining bullet cluster effects without invoking new particles.