Is There Any Evidence That As Science Give Suitable Explanation For Natural Phenomena Encountered, The Lure Of Religion Will Gradually Diminish?

[willbewhatiwill]

Church attendances are down in many western countries but is this the case for other religions?

Phenomena can be scientifically explained, proved & verified, without having to invoke explanations that involve the spiritual world. Invoking the name of God on complex issues (as in the dark ages) can hinder the seeking of explanations & solutions from a scientific & logical standpoint to pressing issues.

[Old_Geezer]

Just because a galaxy has very few stars does that mean it is necessarily composed mainly of "Dark Matter", rather than just having matter that doesn't emit light ? Perhaps it's just not that gassy.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure what that has to do with church attendance though.

[Zacs-Master]

OG, it could be postulated that dark matter is evidence of an external force, a creator. It has the hallmarks of becoming a religion / cult, not least being Unexplainable by Science.
Isn't that how religion works? Opportunists taking the unexplained to tell the masses they should worship a phenomenon or be damned?

[jim360]

Apparently even AnswerBank has a rule 34.

[Zacs-Master]

Doesn't rule 34 state that EVERYTHING can be 'pornographised' so your point was unnecessary Jim.

[jim360]

One has to take it in conjunction with Rule 35, of course :P I just hadn't expected it so soon.

[Zacs-Master]

You've lost me now.

[jim360]

"Just because a galaxy has very few stars does that mean it is necessarily composed mainly of "Dark Matter", rather than just having matter that doesn't emit light ?"

That's basically what Dark Matter is, though: it's matter that doesn't interact at all with electromagnetism, so there's no emission of light or (directly) of any other EM radiation. But it does interact gravitationally, so we can observe its effect on how stars in galaxies are distributed, for example. Dark Matter is, at any rate, a fully real thing even if what it actually is we don't know yet.

[jim360]

Rule 35: If it doesn't exist yet, it will soon.

[Zacs-Master]

Rule 34 and rule 35 contradict each other.

[Zacs-Master]

Rule 35: An addendum of the internet rules stating that if there is no p**n of it, it will be made.

[Old_Geezer]

I thought Dark Matter was a different form completely from baryonic matter. Not simply matter in a place where few stars have ignited.

[jim360]

That's what I said. Normal matter interacts with EM radiation, even if it's "black".

[Zacs-Master]

OG, the full title is Baryonic Dark Matter, making it a sub-set of Dark Matter. It's not a separate 'thing'.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM: "And yet.....there is NO explanation for dark matter. And the more we observe about our universe, the more of a mystery it becomes. " - doesn't mean it was squirted out of the jaxy of Big G on the 3rd day or some BS, just means like many things, we haven't an explanation so far.

[willbewhatiwill]

Higgs boson (nicknamed the ‘God particle’) helps give mass to all elementary particles that have mass, such as electrons and protons. Elementary particles that do not have mass, such as the photons that make up light, do not get mass from the Higgs boson.

Matter, light can be represented as particle or wave meant that "particles" can behave like both particles and waves. The uncertainty principle, states that the precise position and momentum of a particle or wave cannot be pinned-down to any precise location at any moment in time. As matter can be represented as waves, matter can diffuse through solid objects.

https://www.space.com/28181-gravity-higgs-boson-universe-destruction.html reports, “In 2012, scientists confirmed the detection of the long-sought Higgs boson, also known by its nickname the "God particle," at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. This particle helps give mass to all elementary particles that have mass, such as electrons and protons. Elementary particles that do not have mass, such as the photons that make up light, do not get mass from the Higgs boson. The experiments that detected the Higgs boson revealed it had a mass of 125 billion electron-volts, or more than 130 times the mass of the proton. The recently discovered Higgs boson, which helps give particles their mass, could have destroyed the cosmos shortly after it was born, causing the universe to collapse just after the Big Bang. But gravity, the force that keeps planets and stars together, might have kept this from happening, scientists say”.

The wave–particle duality of light particle (called photons) has been shown to apply to other particles (that are more massive), as well. Various particles that can be found when atomic particles are split are reported - like quarks, Leptons, muon, tau, neutrino, muon neutrino, Graviton. (carry the gravity force, baryons (like sigma, lambda, xi, delta, and omega-minus), Mesons. (like pion, kaon, eta, rho, omega, and phi). Antiparticles), Gluon, Antiparticles.

See http://elements.wlonk.com/Particles.htm for more detail lists all the subatomic particles discovered so far.

[jim360]

Cool. I'll need to remember all that.

[jim360]

Not that it overly matters, but the proton would have about the same mass as it does even if the Higgs boson didn't exist. Maybe be careful what you copy and paste, especially if you paste the source and literally reproduce what you copied from it.

Also, anyone who calls it "the God Particle" is hereafter disqualified from talking about it from then on :P

[ToraToraTora]

will there is no need to go and plagiarise explanations for us.

[willbewhatiwill]

Old_Geezer: "I thought Dark Matter was a different form completely from baryonic matter"

From what I just posted above, baryons are subatomic particles, dark matter are not subatomic particles. Dark matters are matters can that cannot be seen but the motions of the stars indicate that invisible mass (dark matter) is lurking.