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God vs Big Bang- Are either correct?
RE: God vs Big Bang- Are either correct?
Quote:The "scaffolding" is caused by gravity which is caused by the matter density. Dark matter is just the most abundant matter in a galaxy. Hence, it is the major contribution to gravity which binds galaxies together. However, dark matter passes through us like we aren't there. Listen again to the video when she is talking about the bullet cluster. Here on Earth, gravity does play an important role but nowhere near as an important role as electromagnetism. And the Earth is effectively all normal matter. Your constant mistake is your assumption that how much of it exist determines how relevant it is. However, how relevant it is dependents on how often it interacts. Since DM interacts sooooooooooooooooo little with us, it's not relevant.
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.
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RE: God vs Big Bang- Are either correct?
(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.
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RE: God vs Big Bang- Are either correct?
(September 15, 2014 at 6:12 am)sswhateverlove Wrote: In the last 4 minutes or so, the presenter seems to be claiming that "dark matter" seems to be the "grid" or "scaffolding" on which everything in the universe (including earth and it's beings) sits upon. If this is the case, then it could be assumed that dark matter and our known reality would be intrinsically linked. In this sense, I don't see it unreasonable to assume that once we know more about the dark matter "scaffolding" we may find it's state or status does have the ability to influence our material existence.

Mmmm, it may, but it's highly unlikely (not a good assumption to hold it as probable), as dark matter's defining characteristic (it's darkness) means it hardly interacts with matter at all. For instance, one candidate for dark matter are theoretical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). There could be a sea of such things constantly passing through us with no more (and probably less) effect than a neutrino.

(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.

I don't think that's been confirmed, but if it were, that still wouldn't mean it's a factor in, say, biological evolution. If it happens, it happens extremely rarely, such that devices capable of detecting neutrinos, the majority of which pass through the entire planet without directly impacting an atom, can't detect dark matter.

So if it turns out that, in theory, it could cause a mutation by impacting an atom in a gene, it would be at a tiny fraction of the rate at which such things are caused by cosmic rays. It would be adding something close to zero to the mutation rate of organism. If we ever detect dark matter, we will probably will still never detect a dark matter-induced mutation.

Note: Surgenator made this point first.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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