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Subject Yet another nail in the coffin for the standard model of the universe.
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Original Message Isn't it funny how in all the years they keep searching for dark matter and energy, to explain away the standard model's failures to predict anything with accuracy, and all they keep finding are things which disprove the theory. And yet every single time they are faced with the overwhelming facts that this model is outdated, wrong and simply doesn't work, they just tweak it, add another factor in, change something to make the observations fit the theory, instead of making a theory which fits the observations. This isn't science, this is religion. Creationism at its worst, saying the universe came from nothing is the same as saying some omnipotent being created it.

Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised.

Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they do if dark matter exists in the form that the most common model requires it to.

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Scientists working on the problem have recently expressed dismay at the universally negative results coming from the LHC, and this has led some to consider that the standard model may be wrong.

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The team found that the final results of these simulations did not at all match what we observe. The models showed many more small galaxies in a wide halo around the Milky Way, whereas in reality there are fewer, larger dwarf galaxies.

Prof Frenk explained that there were two "equally disturbing possibilities" for why this is the case.

One idea is that many dwarf galaxies formed as in the simulation, but there were violent supernova explosions during their formation that radically changed the structure of the dwarf galaxy halo.

"If this were the case, it would mean that galaxy formation is a much more exciting process than we thought," said Prof Frenk.

But there are still uncertainties over whether the small fraction of normal matter in the Universe (4%) could have such a fundamental effect on the structure of the dark matter.

An alternative cause for the discrepancies between the modelled data and what we observe is much more fundamental: that CDM does not exist, and the predictions of the standard model relating to it are false.

Prof Frenk said that after working for 35 years with the predictions of the standard model, he is "losing sleep" over the results of the simulations.

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

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