HAS DARK MATTER BEEN PROVEN?
Question: I just came across an article stating proof of dark matter has been found, and was wondering if you've had time to look into it. This, if true, would seem to be a direct contradiction to variable light speed theory. If you have any information about this you could pass on to me, I would greatly appreciate it.
Response: Thank you for sending this request. I have needed a spark to get me going to respond to this. As it turns out, there is a very good response printed in New Scientist, 9th Sept. 2006, p. 12. The article is entitled "Dark Matter 'Proof' Called into Doubt."
I know not everyone has access to this article, but I do agree with what it says and will try to summarize it for you here.
Here is the opening, which may help:
"When Douglas Clowe of the University of Arizona in Tucson announced on 21 August that his team has 'direct proof of dark matter's existence,' it seemed that the issue had been settled. Now proponents of the so-called modified theories of gravity, who explain the motion of stars and galaxies without resorting to dark matter, have hit back and are suggesting that Clowe's team has jumped the gun.
"'One should not draw premature conclusions about the existence of dark matter without a careful analysis of alternative gravity theories,' writes John Moffatt, of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, who has pioneered an alternative theory of gravity known as MOG (www.arxiv.org/astro-ph/0608675 )...Moffatt claims that his MOG theory can explain the Bullet Cluster without an ounce of dark matter."
The article also mentions a number of other theories of gravity that achieve the same result. In essence, my theory (the ZPE theory) also does this. This is part of a paper which we are seeking to have published currently. If we are unsuccessful in getting this paper published, we will put it here on the web. Basically, gravity is caused by the ZPE acting on charged point-particles that give off a secondary radiation that is attractive. This has been shown by Haisch, Rueda, and Putoff to actually be the source of gravity. As I have a look at the equations that I am dealing with in this context, it turns out that there is an additional term which overcomes all of the problems of galaxy rotation and gravitational lensing. This is a direct result of ZPE theory.