Dark matter
Created | Updated Feb 2, 2002
Dark matter. Do we have it or don't we?
To all empiric scientists: Never seen it myself. Never seen the great wall in China either, but who am I to say it isn't there. So for now assume the dark matter is there.
It all began when scientist tried to measure the size and age of the universe. Don't ask me why, ask them. They measured and calculated a lot and came with an estimate of all matter in the universe. Neat thing and they where all very content with it.
However, one day there was this guy working at some agency. Obviously he had not much to do so he thought a lot. He had a lot of new ideas and told some other scientist about them. He made some nice formulas. Actually the formulas where so big nobody ever took the time to check them all. Here is a small one: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/mathmine1.html
Ok back to the dark matter. The formulas could be used to calculate a lot more and one of the results was that there had to be a lot more matter than the scientist could see. Because they couldn't see it they called it dark matter.
Of course there can be other solutions for this missing matter thing.
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To all empiric scientists: Never seen it myself. Never seen the great wall in China either, but who am I to say it isn't there. So for now assume the dark matter is there.
It all began when scientist tried to measure the size and age of the universe. Don't ask me why, ask them. They measured and calculated a lot and came with an estimate of all matter in the universe. Neat thing and they where all very content with it.
However, one day there was this guy working at some agency. Obviously he had not much to do so he thought a lot. He had a lot of new ideas and told some other scientist about them. He made some nice formulas. Actually the formulas where so big nobody ever took the time to check them all. Here is a small one: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/mathmine1.html
Ok back to the dark matter. The formulas could be used to calculate a lot more and one of the results was that there had to be a lot more matter than the scientist could see. Because they couldn't see it they called it dark matter.
Of course there can be other solutions for this missing matter thing.
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