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I don't see it

SDF — 9/1/2006 1:04:04 AM (archived)

I don't see multiple images of the same object, nothing that looks like lensing to me. How do they know how distant those objects are? Maybe they are wrong. I mean seriously, if there is gravitational lensing, maybe the blue blobs are lensed around the pink mass, and

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• Evidence of dark matter from galactic cluster collision - Andrew - 8/21/2006 8:37:58 PM
  • A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter - LJK - 8/22/2006 2:26:51 PM
    • Would breathing dark matter give you a squeaky voice? - SDF - 8/22/2006 3:54:31 PM
      • In a word, "No". Liquid helium is far too dense. - David F Mayer - 8/28/2006 5:56:53 PM
        • Well, quite a dilemma then, eh? - SDF - 8/29/2006 1:37:16 PM
          • Stopping all fusion in a star? - SDF - 8/29/2006 1:39:54 PM
            • Tox Uthat - Boratus and Ajur - 9/2/2006 10:54:57 PM
            • Don't be stupid - Adam - 8/30/2006 10:03:37 AM
            • Galactic death! - SDF - 8/29/2006 1:41:57 PM
              • Why do I get the feeling astronomers are holding out on us? (n/t) - SDF - 8/29/2006 5:22:34 PM
                • Holding out on what? - LJK - 8/29/2006 6:56:59 PM
                  • This article doesn't make sense - SDF - 8/30/2006 12:43:47 PM
                    • The galaxies you see at the blue blob are far beyond the galaxy that is analyzed here. - alcaray - 8/31/2006 4:23:13 PM
                      • I don't see it - SDF - 9/1/2006 1:04:04 AM
                        • I don't think that that false-colored up photo is offered as evidence to convince you of something. - alcaray - 9/1/2006 2:58:58 PM
                    • Dark matter/ dark energy - BRFelix - 8/30/2006 7:22:47 PM
                    • Dark matter burners - LJK - 8/30/2006 6:07:32 PM
                    • Gravity waves - SDF - 8/30/2006 1:00:01 PM
                      • re: Gravity waves - SDF - 8/31/2006 4:16:35 AM
                        • Might suggest too that there are two supermassive black holes in the center of the Milky Way - SDF - 9/2/2006 1:22:39 PM
      • Sort of like a violin - super-strings rubbing on cords (vocal) creating chords. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/22/2006 4:17:54 PM