Dark matter is not behaving as predicted
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
From “Dark Matter Core, Left Behind from Wreck Between Massive Clusters of Galaxies, Defies Explanation,” we learn,
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Telescope have observed what appears to be a clump of dark matter left behind from a wreck between massive clusters of galaxies. The result could challenge current theories about dark matter that predict galaxies should be anchored to the invisible substance even during the shock of a collision.
“This result is a puzzle,” said astronomer James Jee of the University of California in Davis, lead author of paper about the results available online in The Astrophysical Journal. “Dark matter is not behaving as predicted, and it’s not obviously clear what is going on. It is difficult to explain this Hubble observation with the current theories of galaxy formation and dark matter.”
Initial detections of dark matter in the cluster, made in 2007, were so unusual that astronomers shrugged them off as unreal, because of poor data. New results from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that dark matter and galaxies separated in Abell 520.
In real science, inconvenient facts don’t just get propagandized away – which is how science differs from Darwinism.
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And yet the Big Bang theory also persists. Fortunately there are a growing number of scientists who are beginning to challenge this theory, but for the most part, even Christian scientists just accept this idea as fact.
Inconvenient facts for the Big Bang:
1. The cataclysmic Big Bang is believed to have created a flood of gravitational waves which should fill the universe and yet they remain undetected.
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2. Horizon problem that required the fudge factor of inflation to prop up the theory.
3. Problem of unobserved dark matter and dark energy invented to save the theory.
4. Fully formed galaxies early in the history of the universe.
5. The quantization of red shifts
The faulty naturalistic assumptions which scientists work from necessarily lead to wrong interpretations of the data.
Why don’t we Christians questions the Big Bang Theory more than we do? There is a difference between cosmic evolution, chemical evolution, and biological evolution, but if biological evolution and chemical evolution(origin of life)is not tenable, why would be think that cosmic evolution is?
The Big Bang doesn’t fit with the Bible any better than chemical evolution or biological evolution do.
Gerald Schroeder in his book, Genesis and the Big Bang, shows the fit with the Bible. He quotes Nahmanides on page 65:
“At the briefest instant following creation all the matter of the universe was concentrated in a very small place, no larger than a grain of mustard [the ‘grain of mustard’ was an ancient colloquialism for the tiniest imaginable speck of space]. The matter at this time was so thin, so intangible, that it did not have real substance. It did have, however, a potential to gain substance and form and to become tangible matter. From the initial concentration of this intangible substance in its minute location, the substance expanded,expanding the universe as it did so. As the expansion progressed, a change in the substance occurred. This initially thin noncorporeal substance took ontangible aspects of matter as we know it. From this initial act of creation, from this ethereally thin pseudosubstance, everything that has existed, or ever will exist, was, is, and will be formed.”
I don’t know who Nahmonides is but he has nothing to do with the Bible.
We are told that God created the sun moon and stars on day 4. That doesn’t fit with the Bible. The Big Bang says the sun and other stars were formed first and ten finally earth and lastly the mysterious moon.
So with all these problems, why don’t more scientists question the big bang? My guess is that it is the best guess they have so they don’t want to poke too many holes in it until they have something to replace it lest they be embarrassed by having no viable theory.
Fortunately there is a growing number of scientists who are willing to question it!
tjguy: Nahmonides is one of the ancient, most respected Jewish commentators on the Five books. The comment is from the 12th Century. He had a geat deal to do with the OT. Much of Genesis can be understood several ways. You will find Schroeder, an Orthodex Jew, very interesting with his dual background as a Ph.d. particle physicist, and a scholar of the Torah.