2016-06-02 at 3:14 AM UTC
So if you're familiar with the concept of dark matter you know it's bretty weird. In short, there's something wrong with the mass of galaxies. Among other things galaxies are supposed to spin faster towards the middle of them than they do towards the outer edges. Yet they don't, they spin at the same speed near the edges as in their galactic centre. To account for this, galaxies need more mass/matter. So scientists came up with a term for the missing matter, and they called it dark matter. Now, if you're familiar with the scientific method you know the theory you should go with is the one that relies on the least assumptions. And assuming there's this invisible matter that we can only detect due to the fact it gravitationally interacts with the matter surrounding it, is assuming a lot. I've heard about an alternative explanation that relies on a framework of extended temporal mechanics. Now, that might come with some assumptions as well, but it seems to me, adjusting the way we understand temporal mechanics is a smaller step than blatantly assuming there is a type of matter that has the characteristics of what we call dark matter. The solution of the alternative theory goes a little like this.
It proposes to solve the galaxy rotation problem thus: The further towards the centre of a galaxy you go the more dense it gets therefore it has greater gravitational potential towards the centre as opposed to the edges. Ergo, due to gravitational time dilation, time moves slower towards the centre of the galaxy relative to the less dense outer edges of the galaxy. Therefore it can be said that there is a temporal retrograde towards the centre and a temporal antrograde towards the edge, however the speed of light is c(The same/constant) from all frames of reference, so, all of the light radiating from the distant galaxy must arrive for an outside observer at the same time. Granting merely the illusion of all the stars having the same rotational velocity and eliminating the need for dark matter.
Where's Megakush when you need her.
2016-06-02 at 5:36 AM UTC
I should xpost this in STEMpremacy, brb.
2016-06-02 at 12:43 PM UTC
I'm a clandestine rocket scientist, maybe we can hydrogen bomb outer space and fuck shit up.
