RE: Dark Matter and the spiritual realm
October 10, 2010 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2010 at 3:39 pm by theVOID.)
(March 27, 2010 at 10:36 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I was watching a program about cosmology with my spiritualist wife when the program mentioned that there was matter that we cant see or interact with that accounted for 90% (I think it said) of the mass of the universe.
My wife suddenly became quite excited, and said 'couldnt that matter be the spirit realm' and more or less dared me to prove somehow that it wasn't.
A heated discussion ensued that ended with her being less than convinced that I was right.
Help.
Argument from ignorance...
(March 27, 2010 at 12:21 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Dark matter is a place holder used to explain the behaviour of rotating galaxies and may not actually exist at all. As for it being a realm, then it's no more a realm than a cloud of gas and dust is.
Although I could be wrong
Dark matter is thought to be very heavy non-luminous matter (has no electrons to emit or absorb photons so it gives off no detectable radiation). It's thought to be so massive that the LHC will need to get up to around 15TEVs to detect it, if at all.
It's also only accountable for 23% of matter.
Dark energy is the leviathan in the cosmos at approx 73% of the mass-energy density.
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