Triton Station

Previously, I made a list of five criteria for a convincing dark matter detection.

I am mostly finished with a post following on from what would be required to make a convincing dark matter detection that explains why it will never happen.

This is a guest post by Prof.

I’ve been trying to think more seriously about the entity that set off the LZ experiment.

There is a press release from the LZ collaboration claiming to have detected one WIMP.

The effective force law in galaxies is MOND.

It is straightforward to falsify theories that make clear predictions, should they happen to be wrong.

A few posts back, the issue of the Bullet Cluster came up in the comments.

In the last few posts we’ve discussed the local missing baryon problem in extragalactic objects spanning over ten orders of magnitude in mass from tiny dwarfs to rich clusters of galaxies.

Our cosmology du jour, LCDM, suffers a local missing baryon problem: we don’t detect all of the baryons we expected to find associated with the dark matter halos of individual galaxies.

Last time, we started talking about the data in the recent paper The Baryonic Mass-Halo Mass Relation of Extragalactic Systems.

Previously I had alluded to some of the major projects I’ve been working on.

I have been concerned for years that dark matter was morphing from legitimate science into a cold, dark religion.