(January 15, 2019 at 7:25 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote:(January 15, 2019 at 7:13 am)pocaracas Wrote: Whatever happened to the conversation about intelligence?
Anyway, yes "Dark Matter" is a placeholder name until more info about the thing comes through.
So far, it is only known that there is something producing large scale influence on the trajectories of galaxies... apparently through gravity, so matter is the best description we have for it (because mass is the thing that produces gravity, you know?). We can't see any light coming from it, so dark also fits. And that's it.
And that is a fair statement.
Good.
Now, the observed effect is compatible with this dark matter being quite a lot. Some people did the math and came up with that 90%+ number that others have mentioned here.



