Thus spake Kent Paul Dolan
Oh No wrote:
Thus spake Kent Paul Dolan

This teaser for a subscribers-only article about a possible
new force peculiar to dark matter only is going to need
some discussion here.

http://space.newscientist.com/articl...0-dark-matter-
gets-its-own-dark-force.html

One can establish anything by invoking a force which doesn't obey known
physics to account for the behaviour of a form of matter which doesn't
obey known physics. But is it science?

Umm, "teleconnection"???

That is not a force. That is a proposed answer to unresolved questions
concerning the unification of quantum theory and general relativity. In
fact it does appear to be a uniquely consistent resolution.

You may like to know, btw, since you raised this point some while ago,
that while the motion of an individual star cannot be determined with
sufficient accuracy to test the teleconnection prediction, I am engaged
in analysing the Doppler and proper motions local stars for which there
is an unbiassed database of thousands, and having none of the ambiguity
or the lack of homogeneity of the SN data sets. This time it does look
like a conclusive result is possible. I will let you know what that
result is in due course.

Also, _all_ the currently accepted forces were
once new to science, and everything below the
size level of gross matter was once new to
science, so your argument doesn't hold much
water.

True. But before it was meaningful to discuss such forces and such
matter, there was clear empirical evidence both for its existence and
its behaviour. In contrast the evidence for Cold Dark Matter and its
behaviour is about as clear as the evidence for Phlogiston, and I don't
think that was scientific either.

Regards

--
Charles Francis
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