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May symposium of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, May 2–5, 2011
Dark Matter
No gamma-ray signs of dark matter
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has failed to find definitive evidence of dark matter after more than two years of searching, Robert Johnson of the University of California, Santa Cruz reported May 4. The telescope hunts for dark matter indirectly, by looking for gamma-rays produced when the proposed particles would collide and annihilate. At the Milky Way’s center, where dark matter is predicted to be densest, Fermi found no gamma-ray excess that could clearly be attributed to the material. Among 10 dwarf galaxies, which have a higher ratio of dark to ordinary matter than larger galaxies, Fermi found no gamma rays at all. The non-detection hints that if dark matter particles called WIMPs exist, they weigh more than about 33 times the proton’s mass. —Ron Cowen
Cosmic theory hard to improve
The leading theory of the evolution of the universe — a recipe that includes dark matter, Einstein’s theory of gravity and a constant density of dark energy — is still the best for describing the large-scale arrangement of galaxies as well as the detailed map of the early universe. That’s the conclusion of Constantinos Skordis of the University of Nottingham in England, who found major problems with four alternative ideas that replace dark matter with a modified form of gravity. But the leading theory still has difficulties explaining some properties of individual galaxies and the number of the lowest-mass galaxies, he and others noted on May 4. —Ron Cowen
Dark side of supersymmetry
The Large Hadron Collider, the powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, is likely to be able to confirm or negate a particle theory called supersymmetry within a year, Albert De Roeck of CERN and Antwerp University in Belgium said May 5. According to supersymmetry, every known elementary particle has a heavier partner with a different intrinsic spin. If correct, the theory would not only unify the four known forces of nature but could shed light on dark matter. A leading dark-matter candidate, known as the WIMP, is believed to be the lightest stable supersymmetric particle. WIMPs would make their presence known in the form of missing energy in particle collisions, but could take longer to find if they have a relatively low mass, as some recent studies suggest, says De Roeck. —Ron Cowen
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SIMP Dark Matter
Instead of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) Dark Matter as the leading candidate for most of the matter in the Universe, I now propose Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP) Dark Matter.
After all, who liked the name WIMPs anyway.
You might ask: why then is the Dark Matter not observed to be strongly interacting?
Obviously because it hides its strength in the Random-Sundry extrasensory dimensions (ESDs). In our 4-dimensional physical world the SIMP is extremely weak – indeed, totally lame. However, in the 7 other Platonic dimensions of the Random-Sundry ESDs, the SIMP is an animal!
The mass of the SIMP is different in every pseudoverse of the multiverse, so the predicted mass of the SIMP is whatever we observe. Is that neat, or what? This is fully consistent with the Anthropocentric Principle of cosmology.
The leading spooky particle for the SIMPs is the axion. Why? Why not? It’s an insouciant little particle that travels light and has almost no intellectual baggage. I propose rebranding it as the SIMPleton.
An unmistakable sign of a SIMP passing through the LHC detectors would be a phase transition wherein coffee mugs transform into umbrella drinks in the control room.
Get ready! The Dark Matter search is about to SIMPlify!
Robert L. Oldershaw
...www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
Discrete Scale Relativity; Fractal Cosmology
" Secret of mass" states all mass is life and indowed with gravity , it appears to unite gravity with T.O.E. Theory of everything , defined below.
Secret of mass
So what's the secret of mass?
Man has been studying mass since archimedes, so what is mass?
Science teaches mass is everything around us the mountains the oceans the air we breathe the trees in the forest the fish in the sea.
I would like to introduce you to a driffent way to look at mass.
Science has traditionally looked at mass as stuff all the things you can see and touch.
Science has been content calling it mass and stuff and they have gotten results with this method, They discovered the elements and made the element table.
They discovered molecules and they discovered the atom, and then science went quantum into the subatomic, the world of Lepton, Quarks and Bosons forces, what are they looking for you ask?
They are looking for the elusive gravity particle.
I believe the reason they can't find gravity is because of the way they look at mass.
Science has tried to unite gravity with mysterious higgs field since the seventies , and T.O.E. The Theory Of Everything , The electromagnetic and the electronuclear strong and weak force, NOTE: It appears secret of mass unites gravity with TOE !
Their next hope is string theory and super string theory, which will be untestable for a long time to come, is this really where science wants to spend the next 100 years?
Where did science go wrong?
We are taught mass is everything we see, the stuff our world and universe is made of.
Scientists have said we are made of the same thing the universe is made of, Stardust.
Scientists treat mass as an inanimate object, a particle to be smashed at will, the problem is rutherford, newton or Einstein never answered the most important question regarding mass.
What is mass? Is mass an inanimate object? Why does this matter?
Q. What is mass, well let's look at the universe, suns, planets, earth, mountains, trees, man, dogs, cats, mice, ants and bacteria.
Q. What do they all have in common? Mass, Gravity and Atoms.
So if the atoms and gravity are the common denominator then the question becomes what is the atom?, Is it an inanimate object, let's see .
Oxford dictionary defines , Atomic structure as : Structure of an atom being positively charged nucleus surrounded by negatively "Orbiting" electrons.
Oxford dictionary defines , Life as : Energy, Liveliness , animation.
As you can see for your self the atom fits the definition for life and is an animate object!
So am I to conclude an atom is life? Yes to be exact an atom is the fundamental building block for all life in the universe and right here on earth!
There is no such thing as an inanimate object, all mass has life!
Atoms make up molecules, molecules make up elements and elements make up everything else everywhere else!
So if mass contains an atom it contains life.
So if all mass contains life , and all mass contains gravity , Then the rational conclusion is all life contains gravity.
So the origins of gravity is life.
The gravity disappears at the subatomic level, so where does it go?
It's not hiding in the subatomic particles as CERN and L.H.C. Large Hadron Collider has proven.
So where did gravity go?
It went in the same direction with life. So gravity is a manifestation of life. WOW!
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An atom is life and endowed with gravity!
Ronald Alvarez
Where is your peer reviewed refs?
Btw, the process of life is evolution. It pertains to viruses as well, which have no "animation" outside their hijacking of cellular machinery. Life definition fail.
Unravel Some Of Nature's Complexities, A + B + C
(adnauseam, ad shown where these data-based statements are wrong)
A.
UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS.
Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.
Again, Correct Some Figments Of Science Imagination
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1. Dark energy and matter YOK. Per E=Total[m(1 + D)] all the energy and matter of the universe are accounted for.
Adopt space-massdistance concept, mass-to-energy reconversion.
2. Higgs Particle YOK. Mass forms below some value of the above D.
3. Galactic clusters formed by conglomeration?
Galactic clusters formed by Big-Bang's dispersion, evidenced by their Newtonian behaviour including expansion acceleration.
4. The universe expansion is fueled by the mass-to-enrgy reconversion. Eventually, as expansion will slow down, will run out of massfuel, gravity will overcome expansion and initiate empansion back to singularity. The universe is a cyclic array of energy-mass dualism, between all-energy and all-mass poles, under omnipresent gravity.
5. Natural Selection is a trait of organisms, life?
No. Natural selection is ubiquitous for ALL mass formats, all spin arrays. It derives from the expansion of the universe. All mass formats, regardless of size and type, from black holes to smallest particles, strive to increase their constrained energy in attempt to postpone their own reconversion to energy, to the energy that fuels cosmic expansion.
Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
The recent discovery of an estimated 400 billion unbound planetary-mass objects in the Galaxy, and previous evidence for stellar-mass microlenses, prompt the following comments.
If the Galaxy has huge populations of unbound ultracompact objects with masses in the 0.1 to 1.0 solar mass range (MACHOs) and Neptune/Jupiter mass range (PLANCHOs), then several key astrophysical enigmas might be solved by their existence. A partial list of those mysteries that MACHOs and PLANCHOs might explain would include the following.
The composition of the galactic dark matter
The ubiquitous 1-100 day variability of quasars
The factor of 6 excess in the ARCADE 2 radio background observations
The origin of cosmic rays
The composition of the recently discovered infrared-faint radio transients
A significant unidentified component of the X-ray background
A significant unidentified component of the Gamma-ray background
Ubiquitous Gamma-ray burst phenomena
The origin of ubiquitous unidentified optical transients
It would seem prudent at this point to put as much effort into the dark matter search for “primordial” Kerr-Newman ultracompact objects as has been expended in the unsuccessful 35-year effort to find any form of “WIMP” or exotic particle dark matter.
Robert L. Oldershaw
...www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
Discrete Scale Relativity; Fractal Cosmology
The"primordial Kerr-Newman ultracompact objects" and WIMPs have one thing in common: they both require general relativity to be the means with which gravitational phenomena comprehended. Finding either WIMPS or "primordial Kerr-Newman ultracompact objects" will not solve the dark energy problem. However, if general relativity is completely rejected and a theory constructed upon a new foundation is put in its place, there is a simple way to solve both the dark energy and dark matter problem. Unfortunately, scietists do not want to reject general relativity. This is highly mathematical theory is impervious to criticism. Special Relativity and the general relativity can be can be considered as "principle theories". Einstein's would have much prefered for these two theories to be constructive theories. But for some reason physicists have an unquestioned faith in these two theories . Granted special relativity gives great prediction and all that remains to be done is to make it a constructive theory out of it, which I believe I made a reasonable stab at when I ever get around to publishing it. However, general relativity has woeful prediction. For it to be viable, 94% of the universe has to be composed of particles that we do not understand. Scientists have spent years learning the mathematical intricacies of general relativity. This, no excuse for letting this extragalactic catastrophe that we have had for 70 years, then go on and on. This catastrophe can be solved by a simple plausible paradigm switch. Luminosity is as ubiquitous as mass. If mass has the temperature it gives off luminosity which like the gravitational force varies inversely as the square of the distance from the center of mass. Thus luminosity is a plausible, possible paradigm upon which to build a new gravity theory. The one drawback to this simple possibility is that it has not been established whether or not luminosity can gravitationally attract mass. However, after 10 years to research I have I can get a 10% increase in the weight of a test mass when such a test mass is placed between 1000 watts heat-source and a ice-filled cold-source. It just so happens if luminosity is considered the source of the gravitational force, a simple straightforward explanation for cosmic acceleration follows as well as an explanation for the binding of clusters and the cause for the flat rotation curves.
Peter Fred
...vixra.org/abs/0907.0018
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