Re: Wacky new theory about dark matter

From: Philip Witham (p.j.witham@ieee.org)
Date: Sat Nov 20 1999 - 13:49:13 MST


>I believe, I'm paraphrasing Eliezer on another topic, when I say
> BLECH! PHOOEY!! GROAN!! KASHMAR!!
>Robert

There was a post recently regarding a theory derived from looking at the data
from IRAS and asking what the ratio of monatomic to molecular hydrogen is in
galaxies. Apparently, H2 can't be seen through the atmosphere, so astronomers
made an assumption, which the IRAS data showed to be false. It had the potential
to explain the missing mass very simply. Has anyone seen an update on this work
and/or what's the latest on this?

-PW



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