Dark Morons (*Updated*)

Are you faced with a perplexing astronomical anomaly? Can't explain something unexpected? Lack enough evidence to form a reasonable hypothesis? It must be Dark Matter, the astrophysical equivalent of global warming climate change! Yay for Dark Matter!

Cosmologists say they’ve found the most compelling evidence of dark matter particles to date, deep inside the Milky Way’s core.

There, the thinking goes, the mysterious stuff is colliding to create gamma rays more frequently than anywhere else in the celestial neighborhood.

“We’ve considered every astronomical source and nothing we know of, except dark matter, can account for the observations,” Hooper said. “No other explanation comes anywhere close.”

So... We can't see into the galactic core, we don't really know what the galactic core is composed of, we've no measurable idea of the normal level of energetic interaction in the core... in short, we know nothing about the galactic core, except that it's at the center of the galaxy.

Good golly gumdrops, Wally! It's gotta be the fabled Dark Matter! What else could it possibly be?

What a pathetic excuse for science. Our universities have morphed into government-sponsored clown shows: Lookee here, kids! I'll pop this balloon so you can watch all the Dark Matter run out of it! Of course, you can't see it or hear it or feel it. That's because it's super-invisible! Fun!

*** UPDATE ***

Churt sends this along via email:

This link talks about Birkeland currents. The specific line which address the "Dark Morons" post is:

"Electrons moving along a Birkeland current may be accelerated by a plasma double layer. If the resulting electrons approach relativistic velocities (i.e. the speed of light) they may subsequently produce a Bennett pinch, which in a magnetic field will spiral and emit synchrotron radiation that includes radio, optical (i.e. light), x-rays, and gamma rays."

Which is more likely kids?

1. A mysterious material that we can’t see or test for.
2. Electricity moving through a plasma, [the characteristics of which] can be tested in a laboratory.

Hmm...

If it’s simply electricity then there’s not much need for a bunch of funding to figure things out.

Hmmmmmmm...

I don’t think they’re morons, I think they’re con artists. Well, ok, they’re probably morons as well.

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Like Churt, I'm starting to think that the folks over at Electric Universe have a much more elegant and workable explanation for the underlying physics of the universe than traditional cosmologists can present. At the very least, they don't require the presence of gobs of magical and invisible matter to make their hypothesis function on the most basic level.