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Published online 23 April 2008 | 452, 918 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452918b
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Italian group claims to see dark matter - again
Gran Sasso detector picks up unusual signal.
Physicists in Italy claimed last week to have seen particles of dark matter. Their announcement has got their rivals riled and raises questions about what constitutes evidence of a new particle.
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Is this perhaps a less dense wave than that which would be created by slowing down light, as is indicated in the first page of genesis, which apparently created a wave so dense that it fragmented into what is currently called solid matter. There have been several cases of so called bad luck associated with slowing matter from 36000 mph which might create a less dense form of matter which might temporarily exist until the average speed of an object had dropped to the general average of its surroundings. I am speaking only of matter which is under actual acceleration, free orbit would have no speed so that would not count but anything slowed down would then create matter to some extent according to the formula energy equals one half the mass times the velocity squared. Robert Facer
I will continue to doubt this, and most other "new discoveries" in astrophysics, until that field of study is brought in line with hard experimental evidence that repulsive forces between neutrons constitute a large fraction of the nuclear energy stored in the nuclei right here. See "Neutron repulsion confirmed as energy source", J. Fusion Energy 20, 197-201 (2003)- Oliver K. Manuel http://www.omatumr.com/abstracts2003/jfe-neutronrep.pdf
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