On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 4:57 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > if GR requires dark matter to work, and if we can't observe dark matter, >> > doesn't this mean that GR is falsified? > > > If Dark Matter really isn't there then that would indeed falsify General > Relativity; but the theory that Dark Matter really isn't there is itself > falsified by observations of the Bullet Cluster. > > John K Clark
Thanks John, and also Richard, Brent and Liz. I know my questions are very naive, but the following occurs to me (and I'm sure this has been debated to death by physicists): why is it assumed that this phenomena is caused by some type of matter? As far as I understand, QM hasn't been reconciled with GR gravity. Isn't this + dark matter a sign that there's something fundamental we don't understand yet? Or maybe this is the sense in which "dark matter" is already used, and I'm worrying too much about the word "matter"... Telmo. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
