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Originally Posted by uniqueuponhim
RussT, here's a handy picture to help you understand why dark matter doesn't always follow a straight line, and why dark matter can have transverse velocity:
Now, imagine that that particle is a particle of dark matter. I've shown its velocity, and have broken that down into radial and transverse components. The radial component is simply the component of the velocity which follows a line radially inward or outward from the sun. The transverse component is whatever is left after the radial component is taken (and is always orthogonal to the radial component).
The green line in the picture is the path that that particle takes. The reason it takes this path is because it is gravitationally attracted to the Sun in the middle, and thus is accelerated toward it. But because it has some transverse component to its velocity, it doesn't follow a straight line into the sun. Instead, it follows the hyperbolic trajectory you see there. |
AHHhh, now I see what is really going on! Now I see why WIMPS are hypothesized to be 'massive' (more massive than electrons/protrons), cold and slow...so they can be shown/hypothesized to do the above!!!
Mainstream has no idea how these are made, where they come from, or how fast they are traveling, so these are all assumptions made to 'fit' theory.
Over here...
The Curvature of Space
I 'blew it' because I was mostly considering how gravity was affecting light speed, in gravity wells and bending the light, so I was forgetting about the speed of light going past the planet, which Jeff was kind enough to point out here...
The Curvature of Space
So, when you look at this pic again and read the explanation...
Universal Dimensions
Please, when you bring this up, just just 'reduce' the window so just the picture can be seen, so when you are reading below, you can see the picture.
Everybody, if you look at the picture, just take that gray graphed 'plane', tilt it approximately 90+ degrees so it lines up with the curved arc of light from the star (Visualize the correct size planet so the dent is curved properly to fit the arc). Now, move that star (where the light is being curved) to 12 oclock, 10 oclock, 7 oclock (if the planet were a clock with hands), and that plane will be there for any postion we look at.
NOW, 'that plane' from any position of that star close enough to the planet to curve that light, IS the non-baryonic dark matter traveling at "c", being curved, carrying that light to you.