Lisa Randall
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Theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, working on particle physics, extra dimensions and dark…
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16 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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It is dark matter, not ordinary matter, that drives galaxy formation; ordinary matter just comes along with it. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, dark matter is in some sense more important because it can collapse more readily than ordinary matter because ordinary matter has radiative forces, which makes it hard to collapse on small scales. Actually…”
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The surprise is not that most of the universe is invisible to us, but that the matter we can see makes up as large a fraction as it does. (opens korrents.com)
“In fact, I would say it’s more surprising that the matter that we know about is constitutes as big a fraction of the universe as it does. We’re limited, we’re human. The fact that we see 5% of the energy density of the…”
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Dark matter need not be one simple thing: a fraction of it may radiate its own dark light and collapse into a thin disk. (opens korrents.com)
“The interesting thing is that if some of the dark matter does radiate, and I like to call it dark light because it’s light that we don’t see, but dark matter would see. It could radiate that and then it could perhaps…”
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It is dark matter, not ordinary matter, that drives galaxy formation; ordinary matter just comes along with it. (opens korrents.com)