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The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

Physicists are checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores, or even lodges in rocks.

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FearlessFly 9 Dec 7
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The search for dark matter will expand until it has used all of the money that governments make available for that purpose. (grim joke)

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The whole universe is expanding, so it stands to reason that the search for dark matter would be too. (joke)

Except:
“. . . if redshifts are velocity shifts which measure the rate of expansion, the expanding models are definitely inconsistent with the observations that have been made . . . expanding models are a forced interpretation of the observational results. — E. Hubble, Ap. J., 84, 517, 1936
Source: Wikipedia

@yvilletom [astronomy.com]

@FearlessFly Of course.

A bing search:
‘The agency has nine centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and seven test and research facilities located in several states around the country. More than 17,000 people work for NASA. Many more people work with the agency as government contractors. These people are hired by companies that NASA pays to do work.”

In six years I worked for three such companies. Mid-level managers, for their own job security, built empires on taxpayers’ money. I left that racket and worked for a computer manufacturer.

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