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Daily Archives: February 8, 2017

3D map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter, reconstructed from measurements of weak gravitational lensing with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Getting Geeky: Dark Matter, MACHOs and WIMPs


Analogy is a slippery substitute for science. But to understand the dark matter problem we’ll try an analogy. Imagine you have a long string with a weight on the end. Now spin, with the weight pulling on the string as you turn in circles. If you spin fast enough, and the weight is heavy enough,…

February 8, 2017 in Commentary, Science, Technogeekery.
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