March 4, 2007

IN RELATED NEWS, UNICORNS CAN BE NO BIGGER THAN ROEBUCKS:

Limits set on size of dark matter clumps (PhysicsWeb, 27 February 2007)

If dark matter really does reside only in large clumps, these cannot be any bigger than one-tenth the mass of the Earth.

Cosmology is indistinguishable from comedy.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 4, 2007 9:00 PM
Comments

But, if we measure them differently, I think they can only be one-eleventh the size of earth.

Posted by: ratbert at March 4, 2007 9:53 PM

The limit used to be one quarter, but the French protested on behalf of the metric system.

Posted by: ras at March 4, 2007 11:44 PM

21st century phlogiston.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at March 5, 2007 12:39 AM

So "dark matter", which supposedly makes up most of the mass of the universe, interacts only through gravitation, and whose "clumping" is thought necessary to explain the clumping of regular matter, can only clump to the extent of a midget earth? How much evidence does it take for scientists to realize they are dealing with a phantom [dark] concept?

Posted by: jd watson at March 5, 2007 12:26 PM
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