(September 15, 2014 at 12:20 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Ok, so if considering dark matter as the scaffolding on which all matter sits is not a good reason to consider it a variable with regard to the operations of our material reality, what is your opinion of the claims that dark matter has been observed to bump directly into the nucleus of an atom of ordinary matter, wherefore, as the theory goes, it might interact with it and cause the emission of other particles, creating visible evidence.
The claims that dark matter has interacted with the nucleus have not been confirmed. Multiple other expriments have ruled out the claim detection experiments. You can read David Cline's paper that has a section on DAMA (an experiment that claims detection). http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5200.pdf
Even is dark matter will interact with normal matter, its interaction rate is sooooooooooooooooooooooooo small compared to everything else it's insignificant.
