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Old 05-09-2006
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Originally Posted by Carnifex
Yes, that's why I'm not so sure about that theory (which is not mine, by the way). It's quite probable that, even though neutrinoes make up for some undetectable mass, it is not enough.
Right, it's not. We have a definate upper mass limit for the known types of neutrinos, and somehow (not sure how on this one) we have an estimate of how many neutrinos there are in the Universe, and they come no wher enear to accounting for all of the not-observed missing mass.

A line of evidence that Dragon Star missed was the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectrum peaks which are in-line with current estimates of dark matter and are not explained by MOND (http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/CMB5.html).
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