The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns’ Worth of Mass

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The Milky Way May Be Missing a Trillion Suns’ Worth of Mass about study Detection of the Keplerian decline in the Milky Way rotation curve

Because the Milky Way’s visible material hasn’t disappeared, one easy—and especially thought-provoking—way to explain this result is that far less dark matter is floating around than previously believed. Regarding the recent observations of unexplained deviations in stellar orbital speeds in the Milky Way edge, that cannot be explained by dark matter, slow-moving stars at the Milky Way’s outskirts suggest our galaxy may be far lighter than previously believed, with profound implications for dark matter

This headline has a strong Federal Reserve vibes... What this study - or merely its interpretation - demonstrates is the classical example of the observational perspective inversion. The dark matter effect isn't (just a) deformation of massive bodies paths (through space) effect - it's the space-time deform effect (together with paths of all massive bodies embedded in it) instead. Let me to explain...

Astronomers are already aware, that rotation of stars around galaxies doesn't fit Kepler law (to be continued). See also:

[–]William_World 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

do you think this is just symbolism that has to do with the federal reserve?

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If Dark Matter Is Everywhere, Why Haven't We Detected It In Our Solar System? We detected its changes many times already. But being formed with quantum fluctuations of vacuum, the dark matter is hardly distinguishable from normal vacuum. It's just formed with quasiparticles instead of virtual particles of vacuum. When you live inside of gravitational lens, you may not be able to spot it, until you get outside of it - and compare the observational results. Well, and the dark matter is similar, it just affects different kind of matter differently with compare to gravitational field, which makes no differences. Also the distribution of dark matter field is different from gravitational field, dual actually in many aspects.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's weird because there are only 100 billion stars estimated in the galaxy.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This won't keep me up at night.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Obviously, the missing mass is the information required to describe the bits on the surface of whatever traditional masses and virtual particles. I don't understand why they don't just fucking make an experiment to measure the mass of information.

So, in a few decades of time, likely the quantum field theory will be extended with an information field, just like the Higgs-field.

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

make an experiment to measure the mass of information

I'm not very sure, how mass of information can be defined. We have Landauer's principle and mass - energy equivalence which would allow to attribute mass to information.

But how to define the information (content)? Would compressed PNG file weight differently than BMP file despite their same information content?

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/12/3/035311/2819739/Experimental-protocol-for-testing-the-mass-energy

[–]SMCAB 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Check this out for the current status of universe bullshit

[–]ZephirAWT[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The "One-World Assumption" and why physicists want to discard it

Physicists already operate with two-verse without even noticing it. The worlds described with quantum mechanics and general relativity theories are very different each other. They represent two holographically dual slices (intrinsic and extrinsic observational perspectives) of observable reality inside and outside of gravitational lenses.

From inside the gravitational lens the light propagates always along shortest path (geodesics) with constant speed and it only changes wavelength during it. From outside perspective the same light spreads with constant wavelength but with variable speed and it gets refracted during it. A very different - opposite actually - outcome. Once we have more lenses or bumps in space-time then the number of time arrows increases greatly and we get Einstein cross i.e. multiple realities of distant galaxies or stars.

The same thing may happen with pilot wave at the microscopic scale which brings the "many worlds interpretation" into quantum mechanics.

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11 different interpretations of Quantum mechanics explained in brief

  1. Copenhagen Interpretation: The "standard" interpretation where quantum systems exist in superpositions until measured, at which point they "collapse" to a definite state.
  2. Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI): Every quantum event spawns countless parallel universes, with each possible outcome actually occurring in a different universe.
  3. De Broglie-Bohm (Pilot Wave) Theory: Quantum systems are guided by "pilot waves" that determine their behavior, implying that particles have definite positions at all times.
  4. Objective Collapse Theories: Quantum systems spontaneously collapse to definite states over time, without requiring a measurement.
  5. Quantum Bayesianism (QBism): Quantum states are subjective beliefs about the outcomes of experiments, emphasizing a Bayesian approach to probability.
  6. Relational Quantum Mechanics: The properties of a quantum system are relative to the observer and do not exist absolutely.
  7. Transactional Interpretation: Quantum events involve a time-symmetric exchange of "offer waves" and "confirmation waves" between source and detector.
  8. Ensemble Interpretation: Quantum mechanics only applies to ensembles of systems, not individual systems, emphasizing statistical outcomes.
  9. Consistent Histories: Focuses on establishing a consistent framework to discuss sequences or "histories" of quantum events over time.
  10. Quantum Logic: Proposes a modification of classical logic to account for quantum phenomena.
  11. Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP): Observers play a role in bringing the universe into existence through quantum processes.

None of these interpretations alter the core mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, but they provide different perspectives on what's "really" happening beneath the calculations. The debate over which interpretation, if any, correctly describes nature is ongoing and remains one of the central philosophical questions in the foundations of quantum theory.