{"id":8105,"date":"2017-01-14T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2017-01-16T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:36:54","slug":"dark-matter-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/14\/dark-matter-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Matter Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/case-dark-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from WIRED<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Man Who\u2019s Trying to Kill Dark Matter<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0NATALIE WOLCHOVER<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.wired.com\/photos\/w_1100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Verlinde_TA2.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"marg-r-micro\">The Dutch theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde argues that dark matter does not exist.<\/span><span class=\"credit link-underline-sm\">ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN\/QUANTA MAGAZINE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>FOR 80 YEARS,\u00a0scientists have puzzled over the way galaxies and other cosmic structures appear to gravitate toward something they cannot see. This hypothetical \u201cdark matter\u201d seems to outweigh all visible matter by a startling ratio of five to one, suggesting that we barely know our own universe. Thousands of physicists are doggedly searching for these invisible particles.<\/p>\n<p>But the dark matter hypothesis assumes scientists know how matter in the sky ought to move in the first place. At the end of 2016, a series of developments has revived a long-disfavored argument that dark matter doesn\u2019t exist after all. In this view, no missing matter is needed to explain the errant motions of the heavenly bodies; rather, on cosmic scales, gravity itself works in a different way than either Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The latest attempt to explain away dark matter is a much-discussed proposal by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uva.nl\/over-de-uva\/organisatie\/medewerkers\/content\/v\/e\/e.p.verlinde\/e.p.verlinde.html\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Verlinde<\/a>, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam who is known for bold and prescient, if sometimes imperfect, ideas. In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1611.02269\" target=\"_blank\">a dense 51-page paper<\/a>\u00a0posted online on Nov. 7, Verlinde casts gravity as a byproduct of quantum interactions and suggests that the extra gravity attributed to dark matter is an effect of \u201cdark energy\u201d\u2014the background energy woven into the space-time fabric of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of hordes of invisible particles, \u201cdark matter is an interplay between ordinary matter and dark energy,\u201d Verlinde said.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/case-dark-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED The Man Who\u2019s Trying to Kill Dark Matter by\u00a0NATALIE WOLCHOVER The Dutch theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde argues that dark matter does not exist.ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN\/QUANTA MAGAZINE FOR 80 YEARS,\u00a0scientists have puzzled over the way galaxies and other cosmic structures appear to gravitate toward something they cannot see. This hypothetical \u201cdark matter\u201d seems to outweigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}