(September 11, 2014 at 3:45 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Ok, interesting. Can you direct me to where I would find info on "properties" of dark matter an dark energy that have been observed?
Seriously, it's not hard to find. You do understand that both are hypothetical constructs that were made in order to explain observations, yes? Quite literally, neither would have any reason to be considered by science, had we not observed effects that were not explained by existing models.
Here's a couple of starting points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter
Quote:Subsequently, many other observations have indicated the presence of dark matter in the universe, including the rotational speeds of galaxies by Vera Rubin[6] in the 1960s–1970s, gravitational lensing of background objects by galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster, the temperature distribution of hot gas in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and more recently the pattern of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
You know what, screw it. You can google this stuff yourself.
