Looking for dark matter at the bottom of a wine glass
April 26 2018
East End Brewery
SomethiNg Doesn't add up
Exhibit A:
The Coma Cluster
"The average density in the COMA system would have to be at least 400 times greater than that of visible matter."
Fritz Zwicky
Henceforth, it shall be known as Dark... Matter.
Astronomers are spherical bastards.
No matter how you look at them, they are just bastards.
-- Fritz Zwicky
Vera Rubin
Dark Matter
- We can't see it
- We can't touch it
- We don't know what it is
We use it to explain 85% of the mass in the Universe
Einstein to the rescue
The smoking gun
The bulleT cluster
Dark Matter
- So actually we can see and study it
- It works beautifully
- Some ideas of what it might be
- Or... this is all nonsense and Einstein was wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Looking for dark matter at the bottom of a wine glass
By eiffl
Looking for dark matter at the bottom of a wine glass
Astronomy on Tap presentation, April 26 2018
