SUDDENLY THERE IS "WEIRDNESS" ABOUT THE MILKY WAY'S THEORIZED (AND UNDISCOVERED) DARK MATTER: 4/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
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🗓️ 4 February 2024
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/something-fishy-is-happening-with-the-milky-ways-dark-matter-halo/ar-BB1hs74y
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Universe-Hundred-Year-Search-Matter/dp/0674248996
In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos―some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation
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| 0:35.5 | for dark matter. He's still looking. It's a joy to travel along with him in the book. We know |
| 0:41.4 | it, neutrinos don't qualify, although that's a cool idea because it took them a long time to find neutrinos |
| 0:47.2 | And they had a theory and they went looking for it and and it paid off |
| 0:51.4 | Gravitinos also don't satisfy and rather than pursue that I'm going to |
| 0:56.0 | come to the cosmologist Jim Peebles. |
| 1:01.1 | Jim Peebles says we have something that is cold, that is dark, that is matter, cold, dark matter. |
| 1:08.6 | However, it has to satisfy a transformation from the smoothness of the beginning of the big bang to the clumps we have today. |
| 1:19.0 | That means dark matter has to satisfy something, well calling it weird is inadequate. |
| 1:26.2 | It has to satisfy something where it, what does it interact with in that transformation? |
| 1:31.8 | What do we imagine does it have interaction with anything in our standard model? |
| 1:37.2 | Well, actually, not much. We know dark matter, or the cold dark matter as Jim people's call it must be |
| 1:46.3 | interacting through gravity because that's how we how we discovered it. We see the |
| 1:50.8 | gravitational effect. It must have mass, it must have gravity, otherwise it doesn't fit in what we are observing. |
| 1:59.1 | But it doesn't have an electrical charge. So it doesn't interact with light. It doesn't interact with |
| 2:05.8 | magnetism. It doesn't interact with radiation. It doesn't interact with all the charged particles. |
| 2:11.5 | It does not interact with the strong nuclear force that |
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