The Nobel Prize for Failing to Detect Dark Matter
This is because, [Brown] explained, since they cannot differentiate between dark matter signals and background signals, “if we had seen a dark matter signal we could have measured its size, but because we couldn’t see it, we can only say it has to be smaller than “this amount,” Brown said. He gave the example that, if there were two signals detected, they would be attributed to the two background events predicted. But because there were no events detected, background or dark matter, the dark matter “particles” must be smaller than they’d anticipated.
By Chelsea Gohd June 01, 2018
It is clear that something unseen is providing the gravitational interaction which maintains the universe in its current stable state. That’s evidence. It is not evidence of dark matter, it is simply evidence of something.
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