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Cosmic Controversy covers past and present issues in aerospace and astronomy with your host --- science journalist, Forbes contributor and ”Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System” author Bruce Dorminey.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Episode 5 --- The Trouble with Dark Matter. This important hour-long interview with astronomer and dark matter expert Stacy McGaugh, Chair of the Dept. of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, covers the conundrums surrounding the mystery of dark matter in the cosmos. It’s a candid account of dark matter’s history, the prospects for detecting its makeup, and, most crucially, its failings as a cosmological theory and hypothesis. Problem is, we’re stuck with it.
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I realize that but maybe it will take longer to find or detect the particles. It's a big universe!
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
It needs to be successfully tested which hasn't happened as yet. People have spent decades searching for its hypothetical exotic particles without a bona fide detection.
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
Fascinating though I don't think that a theory should be discounted because it is arrived at using a process of elimination which is probably why it is taking so long to define dark matter in precise terms.
Sunday Jul 19, 2020
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