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Comets may not be the product of the Sun exerting its influence over rocks in the Oort Cloud, but may instead be pushed Earth-wards by dark matter. So say Lisa Randall and Matthew Reece from Harvard's Department of Physics, in a paper titled “Dark Matter as a Trigger for Periodic Comet Impacts”. The pair write that “Large …

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  2. Aquatyger

    There are alternative explanations

    Typically these big bang metaphysics theorists ignore the better predictive alternatives. Plasma cosmology has an explanation of the observed inadequate gravitational attraction, that does not need dark matter. As for the 31Myr cycles of extinctions and the 250Myr cycles of major extinctions (including that for the dinosaurs), all can explained by the solar system's wobble through the plane of the Milky Way as it turns about its axis and the time of rotation of the solar system around the galaxy (remember Feynman's plates and their wobble). Wobbles cause the earth to pass through rings of objects such as the Opik-Oort cloud in the plane of the solar system or the plane of the galaxy large enough to cause extinction events if the earth is unlucky enough to collide with one.

    Theoreticians are just grasping at straws, hope-wishing, desparately looking for further fanstasies to bolster their belief in their dreamworlds.

  3. Frogmelon

    I think that dark matter causes global warming.

    Or maybe global warming causes dark matter.

    Or something.

  4. cortland

    -------> we've not been able to find denser or more energetic regions in space.

    Sure we have; we're ON one.

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