Well, cosmologists do keep trying, so there’s still hope for the field. But still, some of these ideas…
One physicist now suggests that this “fifth state” of matter (the other four non-dark states are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma) might be information. But then information must be a physical thing…
In principle, [Melvin] Vopson’s idea that information is fundamental to the organization of the universe is not new or different. Physicist John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) thought that “Everything is information.” What’s different is the idea that information is literally physical, that it could even be the long-sought “dark matter”:
But how viable is the basic idea? Information theorist Bill Dembski (right) told Mind Matters News that Professor Vopson may be confusing two different concepts of information …
“Could Information Be — at Long Last — the Missing Dark Matter?” at Mind Matters News
Also: Why some scientists believe that the universe itself is conscious
Discover: Even the best dark matter theories are crumbling
Researcher: The search for dark matter has become a “quagmire of confirmation bias” So many research areas in science today are hitting hard barriers that it is reasonable to think that we are missing something.
Physicists devise test to find out if dark matter really exists
Largest particle detector draws a blank on dark matter
What if dark matter just doesn’t stick to the rules?
A proposed dark matter solution makes gravity an illusion
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Proposed dark matter solution: “Gravity is not a fundamental governance of our universe, but a reaction to the makeup of a given environment.”
Could information be the missing dark matter? Why not? The answer to everything now seems to be information. And wouldn’t that include us? Are we all just information, nothing more than shimmering columns of green characters as in The Matrix. Perhaps we are more like illusions than we realize.
Seversky
What does being more like an illusion mean?
What do they mean by “dark matter”?
What does that 2-word term refer to?
Materialism and reality: the couple that was never meant to be.
Materialism:
– “People, we have concluded, using the all- powerful science, that you are illusions!”
PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALISM SHOULD BE ON ITS DEATH BED
http://web.csulb.edu/~mbiedeba/ch1.html
Pw @ 3
According to Wikipedia:
Seversky @6:
Thanks for quoting Wikipedia.
Note that “dark matter” seems like a heavy speculative idea that attempts to explain within a naturalistic framework observable facts. There could be other possible explanations, including non-naturalistic ones too. Perhaps the best explanation was given by a founder of modern science, who wrote “ could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being” in his famous paper known as “Principia Matemática”. http://inters.org/Newton-Schol.....athematica
@7 PS
Also let’s remember Johann Kepler, the founder of Physical Astronomy, whose famous work “Harmonies of the World” (in Latin, Harmonices Mundi) begins:
References
An extensive chapter in Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographic Mystery, the first published defense of the Copernican system) is devoted to reconciling heliocentrism with biblical passages that seem to support geocentrism.
Kepler, J. 1619. “Proem.” Harmonies of the World.
“Epilogue Concerning the Sun, By Way of Conjecture,” ibid.
@7 & @8:
PS.
Could the best alternative explanation to “dark matter” perhaps require that we look back several centuries to the two classic documents cited @7 & @8?
🙂
pw @9:
The best explanation is found in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1-3. Everything else derives from it.