Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum

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Diogenes
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Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum

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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-dar ... acuum.html
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Deriving Tully-Fisher sounds impressive. Seems to avoid some MOND problems too. OTOH as he says there are a lot of things dark matter explains well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully-Fisher
n*kBolt*Te = B**2/(2*mu0) and B^.25 loss scaling? Or not so much? Hopefully we'll know soon...
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Re: Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vac

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This answers a couple of questions I've always had. One, why isn't gravity bipolar when everything else is? Two, if dark matter is so prevalent why can't we detect any right where we live?
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Post by D Tibbets »

The theory may work from a mathmatics perspective, but does it work observationally? Is it consistant with the best evidence found for dark matter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

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Post by krenshala »

When did Dark Matter (and Dark Energy for that matter (pun not intended)) stop being a place holder for the unknown difference between the theorized and the observed?
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