Comments on: Chinese space probe detects possible dark matter signal https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-space-probe-detects-possible-dark-matter-signal/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:00:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Diane Wilson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinese-space-probe-detects-possible-dark-matter-signal/#comment-1027088 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:00:27 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48984#comment-1027088 Occam’s particle detector says that it’s just another cosmic ray source.

I dislike the term “dark matter.” Simply including the word “matter” suggests that we know more than we do, and constrains the questions that we ask. I’ve read a suggestion that the term “dark matter” is really a quantification of our ignorance, and that seems about right.

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