Recent content by DanK66

In what way? Just gravitationally right? If so then it would have been uncloaked at the start, and then cloaked later with the same effect right? Although this point kinda seems moot given that most of the above mentioned points tend to point away from the dark-matter-as-cloaked-star-systems...

Hmm, I guess that helps me organise my thoughts about the whole subject. Perhaps it supports the idea that DM could be cloaked star systems... If the DM was all in the core, that might be an unsuitable location for life due to radiation, I've read that out in the halo, heavier elements are not...

You'd have to have a great sewer. I mean there's this building in downtown Pittsburgh that in the winter you can walk by it and always there is hot steam coming out of the manhole covers on the southwest corner. But other than that I know of no other in Pittsburgh. I'd be willing to bet that in...

A question for those of you who know about the distribution of dark matter in the galaxy: Do we know how "clumpy" dark matter is? Can we tell yet whether dark matter is distributed about as densly as a gas or whether it's possible that there are the equivalent mass distributions that might...