Comments on: Has Fermi Seen New Evidence for Dark Matter?

By: SELF DEVELOPMENT BLOG » Fermi may have spotted dark matter | Bad Astronomy

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:57:14 +0000

[...] fellow Hive Overmind blogger and astronomer Sean Carroll writes that it’s possible Fermi has done just this. The data are not conclusive, but very provocative nonetheless. He has the [...]

By: Kosmische Kuriosa kompakt « Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null

Kosmische Kuriosa kompakt « Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:53 +0000

[...] (Goodenough & Hooper, Preprint 11., Scientific American 3.11., Physics World 29., Sky&Tel., Cosmic Variance 28., Nature News 2009.1018 19.10.2009 zu Fermi, Irastorza, Preprint 15.11.2009 zu den [...]

By: Aaron Sheldon

Aaron Sheldon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:38:44 +0000

Remind me again, exactly what are the estimates for super nova rates in the galactic center?

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5956/1047

By: Planet Icosahedron and Astronomy Stuff « IBY’s Island Universe

Planet Icosahedron and Astronomy Stuff « IBY’s Island Universe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:54:37 +0000

[...] it be? Finally, a visible evidence of dark matter? It is possible, although we have to wait for the results, so don’t get your [...]

By: symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Dark matter at the Fermi Symposium

symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Dark matter at the Fermi Symposium — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:52:27 +0000

[...] the suggestion hung thick in the air (their paper also stirred up rumors of dark matter on the blogosphere). At the end of his talk, when the moderator asked if there were any questions, an audience member [...]

By: Thomas Neil Neubert

Thomas Neil Neubert — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:36:59 +0000

Perhaps I’m being dense but I fail to understand how this particular observation supports in any way a dark matter hypothesis. I think the authors are correct in not delving too deeply into that possibility. What is most important is the possibility of A NEW phenomenon; a correct explanation may take a long time. Descriptive science is enough; we don’t need a theory, especially if the theory is technical jargon (e.g. “dark matter” ) that just means “we don’t have any idea what kind of matter is causing this”; then just say we don’t know, we just don’t have a theory.

By: O observatório de raios-gama FERMI celebra um ano de atividades e confirma a teoria da Relatividade Geral de Einstein « Eternos Aprendizes

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:03:48 +0000

[...] Discover: Has Fermi Seen New Evidence for Dark Matter? [...]

By: Sunday Science Sermon : Rocket Party

Sunday Science Sermon : Rocket Party — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:42:58 +0000

[...] The FERMI telescope has also managed to potentially demonstrate evidence for dark matter. [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:57:29 +0000

@17: One of the greatest challenges of theoretical physics is to simultaneously entertain multiple visions of how nature could be — even if some of them are radical or mutually incompatible — and keep track of what we actually know and how we know it.

Nicely put

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:22:33 +0000

Yes, John, it is nonsense–consider Penzias and Wilson’s discovery of the cosmic background radiation proposed by theorists Gamow et al. It took theorists Dicke, Peebles, and Wilkinson to
tell them what they had stumbled onto. The latter should have shared the Nobel.