Vera Rubin...a giant has passed..

[Bob Watson]

the name Vera Rubin may be unknown to most but her conurbations to our understanding of the universe is beyond measure! Vera was first and foremost a Woman of science . A seeker of truth she looked deeply into the mysteries of the universe.. and found some of them..

"We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way." Vera Rubin.
Vera Rubin, Who Confirmed Existence Of Dark Matter, Dies At 88

 

[Bob Watson]

a general scope, Dark matter is something along the lines of a concept. Imagine this, we stipulated that everything that has mass has some kind of gravity. So after the Big Bang, when everything exploded and the universe started expanded. So if objects such as stars and planets have mass, then why doesn't the entire universe collapse together because of the gravity? We don't know the answer, but what we do know, is that everything in the universe, has an action and an action. Everything has an opposite in the universe. Take charges, there is a positive and a negative. So what is the opposite of gravity? We don't know what causes gravity but we know it's an extremely weak force that travels very long distances. Dark Matter would be the opposite of gravity, also made up of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPS). In essence both Dark Matter and gravity are particles with mass interacting. Gravity brings the matter together. Dark Matter pushes it away. Oddly, dark matter is not equal and opposite to Gravity or else we could be floating here on Earth. However, it might just be possible that dark matter begins as you get further and further away from a mass and gravity begins at the center of the mass.

 

[mike]

I posted my ideas on Dark matter here.

Again, not presenting this as the reality, just my gut feeling about what might be happening.