LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Nov. 10, 2008 (AScribe Newswire) — A recent article on the formation of galaxies, in the journal Nature, has undermined the credibility of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) theory of WIMPs at the expense of UC Santa Cruz, CDM’s principal supporter and originator in 1984. The Physicsworld article about the Nature paper is entitled, “Galaxy survey casts doubt on cold dark matter.”
The UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) central doctrine for CDM has been that small galaxies form first and larger galaxies are formed through mergers of smaller galaxies. This is called hierarchal galaxy formation, a central principle of the UCSC Cold Dark Matter theory. This should lead to a non-simple galaxy formation process based upon a half dozen independent variables representing various galaxy parameters.
The October 23, 2008 Nature article, authored by Professor Michael J. Disney of UK’s Cardiff University and five associates, is entitled, “Galaxies appear simpler than expected.” It turns out that through a statistical analysis of the radio and optical data from 200 galaxies, five of the six “independent” variables actually are dependent on some single unknown independent variable. The last sentence of the abstract makes a key statement, “Such a degree of organization [of galaxies] appears to be at odds with hierarchical galaxy formation, a central tenet of the cold dark matter model in cosmology.” This is a strong and potentially prize-winning challenge to UC Santa Cruz’s Cold Dark Matter thesis.
More from Professor Disney’s abstract: “Here we report that a sample of galaxies that were first detected through their neutral hydrogen radio-frequency emission, and are thus free from optical selection effects shows five independent correlations among six independent observables, despite having a wide range of properties. This implies that the structure of these galaxies must be controlled by a single parameter, although we cannot identify this parameter from our data set. Such a degree of organization [of galaxies] … appears to be at odds with hierarchical galaxy formation, a central tenet of the cold dark matter model in cosmology.”
In addition to the six universities/research establishments mentioned in the above title, doubts have also been cast on UC Santa Cruz’s Cold Dark Matter by the University of Chicago, Harvard, and by Jerome Drexler when he was a Research Professor in physics in 2005 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and afterward when he authored two more astro-cosmology books when based in Silicon Valley.
The following is a sampling of articles and papers casting doubt on the UC Santa Cruz theory of uncharged, proton-free, and hydrogen-free Cold Dark Matter with its weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which have not been detected after two decades of searching:
October 2008 paper, “Galaxies appear simpler than expected” by Cardiff University’s Professor Michael J. (Mike) Disney, et al, published in Nature. The Physicsworld article about this paper is entitled, “Galaxy survey casts doubt on cold dark matter.”
September 2008 paper, “Reopening the Window on Charged Dark Matter,” by University of Chicago Professor Edward F. (Rocky) Kolb, et al, published as astro-ph arXiv:0809.0436 v1. “Further, we find that charged massive particles [CHAMPs] may simultaneously solve several long-standing astrophysical problems, including the underabundance of dwarf galaxies, the shallow [mass] density profiles in the cores of the LSB [low surface brightness] galaxies…”
September-October 2007 paper,” Modern Cosmology: Science or Folk Tale” by UK’s Cardiff University Professor Michael J. Disney, published in American Scientist magazine, Volume 95.”This situation [Lambda-Cold Dark Matter] is very far from healthy.”
September 2007 Newswire, “NASA Data Raises Doubts of Existence of Cold Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters,” by Jerome Drexler, published in “Discovering Postmodern Cosmology,” Chapter 24.
May 2007 paper, “Missing Mass in Collisional Debris from Galaxies” by Dr. F. Bournaud, et al, (CEA Saclay, France) published in Science 25 May 2007, Vol.316 no.5828, p.1166-1169. “[I]t more likely indicates that a substantial amount of dark matter resides within the disks of spiral galaxies. The most natural candidate is molecular hydrogen in some hard to trace form.”
May 2007 newswire, “‘Ring of Dark Matter’ Uncovered from Anomalies-Discrepancies” by Jerome Drexler, published in “Discovering Postmodern Cosmology,” Chapter 19. The top-down theory of galaxy formation used in Drexler’s Postmodern Cosmology solves the anomalies/discrepancies dilemma, but the bottom-up theory of galaxy formation of UCSC’s Cold Dark Matter does not.
March 2007 paper, “The Observed properties of Dark Matter on small spatial scales,” by Cambridge Professor Gerard Gilmore, et al, published as arXiv:astro-ph/0703308v1. “Galaxy formation models inside the Lambda CDM [Cold Dark Matter] paradigm however have considerable difficulties matching observations on small scales. The well-known ’satellite problem’ is an example, as is the ‘cores vs. cusps’ debate.”
February 2007 paper, “A Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Would Be Evidence the Big Bang Probably Satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” by Jerome Drexler published as arXiv physics/0702132v1. It is unlikely the Second Law was satisfied by a big bang producing high-entropy Cold Dark Matter WIMPs.
October 2006 paper, “A New Force in the Dark Sector?”, by NYU Professor G.R.Farrar, et al, published as arXiv: astro-ph/0610298v1. “The number of superclusters observed in SDSS [Sloan Digital Sky Survey] data appears to be an order of magnitude larger than predicted by Lambda-Cold Dark Matter simulations.”
June 2006 paper, “Cold Dark Matter Cosmology Conflicts with Fluid Mechanics and Observations.” by UC San Diego Professor Carl H. Gibson, published online in the arXiv June 2006 as astro-ph/0606073 and also in the Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics.
June 2006 news: Russia announced it will launch an ultraviolet astronomical observatory in 2010 having a 1.7 meter main mirror. The project manager is Boris Shustov, Professor of Physics and Mathematics and head of the Institute of Astronomy at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The release quotes him, “One should particularly emphasize the observatory’s role in detecting the so-called dark matter of the Universe and unlocking its secrets because such dark matter can only be seen by large ultraviolet telescopes.” The proponents of Cold Dark Matter make no claim for UV emission. Drexler’s relativistic protons do emit UV.
April 2005 paper, “Identifying Dark Matter through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based ‘Cosmic Constituents,’” by NJIT Research Professor Jerome Drexler published as arXiv astro-ph/0504512v1. The paper’s analysis of the possible relationships of 14 cosmic constituents with dark matter makes a strong case for relativistic-proton dark matter over Cold Dark Matter WIMPs.
March 1990 paper, “Charged dark matter” by Nobel Laureate Harvard Professor Sheldon L. Glashow, et al, published in Nucl. Phys. B, Part. Phys., Vol. 333, No. 1. From a 1989 interview: “People have been excluding the possibility of charged dark matter for no good reason and limiting themselves to neutral particles,” says physicist Sheldon L. Glashow of Harvard University. “If you don’t know what dark matter is, it would seem wise to be open-minded.” “Glashow and his collaborators propose that dark matter consists of stable, very massive, electrically charged elementary particles left over from the Big Bang.”
Drexler utilizes the overwhelming evidence provided in his three books, his two scientific papers, the papers of Harvard’s Prof. Glashow and Chicago’s Prof. Kolb, and those researchers listed above casting doubt on the existence of Cold Dark Matter WIMPS, to stake his claim to the discovery of the precise identity and physics of the universe’s dark matter, which he first publicly disclosed in his December 15, 2003 book. The following five publications, covering the physics of Drexler’s dark matter, the supporting evidence, and dark matter cosmology, also provide plausible explanations for the universe’s accelerating expansion, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, big bang, cosmic inflation, and cosmic web.
- Book, March 1, 2008, “Discovering Postmodern Cosmology: Discoveries in Dark Matter, Cosmic Web, Big Bang, Inflation, Cosmic Rays, Dark Energy, Accelerating Cosmos.”
- Scientific paper, physics/0702132, Feb. 15 2007, “A Relativistic-Proton Dark Matter Would Be Evidence the Big Bang Probably Satisfied the Second Law of Thermodynamics.”
- Book, May 22, 2006, “Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Utilizing Dark Matter Relationism, Cosmology, and Astrophysics.”
- Scientific paper, astro-ph/0504512, April 22, 2005, “Identifying Dark Matter through the Constraints Imposed by Fourteen Astronomically Based ‘Cosmic Constituents.’”
- Book, Dec. 15, 2003, “How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun: An Astrophysics Detective Story.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE THREE BOOKS: Jerome Drexler is a former member of the technical staff and group supervisor at Bell Labs, former research professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of Technology, founder and former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp.(Nasdaq: LCRD). He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990 “Inventor of the Year Award” for Silicon Valley and recognition as the original inventor in 1978 of the now widely-used digital optical disk “Laser Optical Storage System” and the LaserCard(R) nanotech data memory. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of Technology and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors.
