NASA’s hardware needs are supplied by other big corporations. NASA’s theoretical needs are also supplied by big corporations, in this case, schools. This is because only similar organisms can interact with each other on equal terms. And also, this must be so because individuals do not have the resources to be theoretical contractors for NASA. Corporate science is done on a huge scale and it is closed to amateur investigators.
These professional researchers built a consortium called Virgo Consortium to supply NASA with Dark Matter theory.
As bloggers anything we write about Dark Matter is absolutely totally irrelevant. Of course, corporate scientists publish papers on Dark Matter and some simulations are publicly available. But do we stand a chance of ever figuring out as outsiders the simulation reported in the media?
Dr. Volker Springel, of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, led the computer simulations which took 3.5 million processor hours to complete.
These calculations finally allow us to ‘see’ what the dark matter distribution should look like near the Sun where we might stand a chance of detecting it.
This calculation has redefined the state of the art in cosmological simulations. At times I thought it would never end.
Dr. Springel says his simulation will allow NASA to see Dark Matter. Maybe. Maybe not. We are totally out of the loop.
Dark matter is being decided between NASA and other similar organisms and they will let us know their results when they are finished. We, as amateurs, have no clue on the results of this corporate science. We will never have a clue. So what is the point of talking about dark matter here? I think it is totally futile and irrelevant. This is not defeatism. I am just observing the facts.
And I wonder if individual speculators on Dark Matter such as these are also out of the loop even though they are affiliated academics? (They have better press agents).
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