Comments on: Hubble Survey of Gravitational Lenses Yields Measure of Dark Matter in Distant Galaxies

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:24:15 +0000

alphonso richardson Says:
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:12 am

Thanks mate. It was really intended as a cheeky post. A bit hard to convey that sense through written word only though!

I'm not anti-anygiventheory, I just take exception to the way in which some people put their point across. I agree with you though – science never got anywhere but through a wide open mind.

By: Gavin Flower

Gavin Flower — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:56:06 +0000

Dark Matter != Dark Energy

By: alphonso richardson

alphonso richardson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:12:11 +0000

Whoa, there 'fiend!

i've always followed your posts. Clearly you're very passionate about this, but let's not get too bogged down with it.
We both know D.E hasn't been proven OR disproven to exist, but it doesn't hurt to look at other models to explain unexpected phenomena.
Let's see where the evidence takes us when it comes in…..

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:35:08 +0000

Just wait until deep, fast all-sky deep, fast all-sky surveys commence (e.g. PAN-STARRS, etc.) in a few years combined with the next generation of space & huge ground-based obser vatories that will come online. The number & diversity of new gravitational lenses may be spectacular & informative to astronomers interested in Dark Matter and galaxy evolution in distant galaxies.

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:57:11 +0000

Now we just have to wait for some dolt to exclaim that dark matter doesn't really exist and is just a theory, that our cosmology is flawed etc. etc, and the usual UT dark matter blog-comment fiasco can ensue…