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Published online 9 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454148b

Super-sensitive tool key to dark-matter claim

Theorists unlock mysteries of experimental results.

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  • This report illustrates the absurdity of science guided by mathematical models, rather than experimental observations. Eventually these physicists will be asked to explain why they wasted time and research funds on hypothetical constructs like dark matter and failed to study and recognize the nuclear energy source that sustains life and powers the Sun: Repulsive interactions between neutrons in the 3,000 data points that represent all visible matter in the universe, http://www.omatumr.com/Data/2000Data.htm -- Oliver K. Manuel; Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Chemistry; http://www.omatumr.com; omatumr@yahoo.com

    • 09 Jul, 2008
    • Posted by: O M

  • Thank God, a few physicists are trying to decipher THE WORLD THAT WE SEE, rather than speculating on an imaginary one that is "DARK"! _1. Last year Dr. Gerald A. Miller, a physics professor at the University of Washington used experimental data collected at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., the Bates Linear Accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Mainz Microtron at the Johannes Gutenberg University to obtain new insight about the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together. _2. Last month 40+ scientists from academic institutions and research facilites around the globe reported new information on the nature of the strong force between neutrons and protons that "has implications for understanding cold dense nuclear systems such as neutron stars." [Science, vol. 320. no. 5882 (13 June 2008) pp. 1476 - 1478]. As mentioned above, repulsive interactions between neutrons in the 3,000 different types of nuclei that represent all visible matter in the universe power the Sun and drive the cosmos [_3. "On the cosmic nuclear cycle and the similarity of nuclei and stars, Journal of Fusion Energy 25 (2006) pp. 107-114] http://www.omatumr.com/Data/2000Data.htm -- Oliver K. Manuel; Emeritus Professor of Nuclear Chemistry; http://www.omatumr.com; HYPER-LINKS : _1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-09/uow-roa091707.php; _2. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5882/1476?ck=nck; _3. http://arxiv.org/pdf/nucl-th/0511051v1

    • 13 Jul, 2008
    • Posted by: O M

  • Here are links to two other papers by Gerald A. Miller on electrical properties of the neutron [1, 2] - the nuclear energy source that sustains life on Earth and powers the Sun and the cosmos [3]. 1._http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0806/0806.3977v1.pdf 2._http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0705/0705.2409v3.pdf 3._http://arxiv.org/pdf/nucl-th/0511051v1

    • 13 Jul, 2008
    • Posted by: O M