Slapnav: Looking for KINKY dark matter? Switch on the GPS! Although our ancestors would have been amazed by GPS technology for the current generation it's pretty old hat. Nevertheless, scientists have come up with a new idea for using the network of positioning satellites that encircle our globe – the quest to find dark matter. In a paper published in the latest issue of Nature …
"Having started wrong it rapidly turns mystical and turns from "simplification based on erroneous data" to outright stupidity."
The (tedious) video also seems to be devoid of any significant connection to the rather interesting topic of topological defects in spacetime and their potential to be spotted by effects on time as measured by GPS synchronization.
For a start, the planets orbit fairly close to the galactic plane
AFAIK the solar system plane is at ~60 degrees to the galactic plane.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=633
"Our own solar system is tipped by about 63 degrees with respect to the plane of the galaxy."
They were the most accurate design you could pack in a satellite small enough you could build 38 of and put in a 1000Km orbit, along with a chunk of TTL logic for the code generating.
However they are available and they have a nice big back catalogue of data to chomp through.
Clever idea. Let's see what happens.
Naw, that's the evicted dark matter, as if failed to pay its galactic rent.
More seriously though, you're thinking of the dark matter halo around the galaxy. It's thought that dark matter may also be in clumps within the galaxy.
Of course, the entire lot is just a theory. It may be that the detected mass isn't dark matter in the form science thinks it is and that it's really Dalek invasion forces staging areas.
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