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Apr 08 2014

Dark Matter

Published by under Astrophysics

My high school biology teacher used to call brain matter “dark matter”.  Scientists are using their ‘dark matter’ to hypothesize that they are looking at dark matter with the abundance of gamma rays coming from the center of our galaxy:  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-wimps-fermi-milky-way/

You will notice that the energies spoken of in the article are three to ten times higher than gravity.  With the density of gamma rays coming in, some coincident with the same energy, and with a factor of 2 for plane polarization, it is not unreasonable that graviton readings are combined.  It is likely that the scientists are looking at gravitons from a concentration of conventional mass at the center of the galaxy.

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