OT - Physics Question on Anti-Matter

[Phoenix-D]

shinigami said:
I often find it funny how some scientists deride religion because it fails to meet scientific standards but will stand firm on accepted theories that truly can not be proven right or wrong. Hmmm, sounds like faith to me.

Oh, you can do a lot of proving. Contriving large-scale experiments with astronomy is a *****, but in that respect its not that different from geology or any of the other sciences that involve large-scale processes.

So instead you make models, poke with them, use them to make predictions, and (important step religion leaves out) use them to make predictions. You can test THOSE against reality to see if they match. We can't really test if its possible to exceed C yet, but we can -and have- tested time dilation. Etc.

[Randallw]

I consider the idea of dark matter on par with the Aether. I'm not saying it isn't true but on the one hand they couldn't find how light propogated through space so they invented some invisible substance that filled space, the Aether, and on the other hand they can't figure out where most of the universes weight is so likewise they guess it must be some invisible substance filling space, dark matter.

[Renegade 13]

That is true; I was just pointing out that it's neither directly from the sun, nor from nuclear fission.

Sorry, guess I've just been a little arguementative recently