Dark Matter Mapped?

[pokeraz]

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Nature.com - Dark Matter Mapped

[vhawk01]

These are my favorite type of thread because this is so far from the areas that I am comfortable talking about. I almost cannot help but to learn something from this thread.

[luckyme]

It's a good example of the scientific method at work -
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Massey is also confident in the robustness of his map on the whole. "A couple of individual discrepancies in the map are not a huge surprise," he says. "The technique is intrinsically more noisy, and more prone to systematic errors, near the edges of the map." That is where most of the discrepancies are seen.

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Initially, challenges to the current understanding are treated as possible measurement errors or something similar. But the door is left open a crack in case the anomalies turn into major revision demands.

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Like Massey and Linder, Frenk also suspects that the discrepancies are due to errors: "We know too much about the Universe," he says, to have completely missed this phenomenon up till now.


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From above, the confidence is high that the current model will hold. Interesting, with scientists all so eager to discover coffee is killing me and Einstein was wrong.

luckyme