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A recent NASA (RELEASE: 12-068) contained the following:
"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."
That statement was followed by, "The gigantic merging galaxy cluster called Abell 520, is located 2.4 billion light-years away."
Now, to my uncluttered mind (meaning unmathed, unphysicsed, and unarroganced) this seems a bit far-fetched. Astronomers are viewing dark matter clumps (or, NOT viewing since dark matter cannot be seen) that existed quite a long time ago -- the unlight from the galaxy cluster traveling at approximately 186,000 miles per second has reached the eyes of the observer after a trip spanning 2,400,000,000 years.
Good Gravy!
I can't even conceive of such a vast distance or unimaginable length of time. The more I read from NASA releases the more convinced I become that modern-day science conclusions consist, not of hard facts, but of fanciful wishes, unsubstantiated hypotheses, and of downright science-fictional guesses.
(No, not really. I'm just feeling a bit flabbergasted.)
More about Dark Matter and Dark Energy
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A word I thought I knew
but found that I did not.
A nebula (from Latin: "cloud") is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.
Horse Head Nebula
Example of a Dark Nebula_____
BORN ON THIS DAY
(Scottie)
March 3, 1920 - Jul 20, 2005_____
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
--Max Planck
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