TSoDS #3: "We call it dark... because we don't know..."

[Blue State Bandit]

Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Draws a Blank

And the full quote:

"We call it the dark sector precisely because we don't know what accounts for most of the energy and mass in the universe."

How about we start calling "Dark Matter" Whole Cloth?

Just because matter is not detectable, does not make it exotic. It makes it non reactive. Current IR detection capabilities requires super cold sensor temperatures. As the ability to cool these sensors for longer duration observations advances, more matter is detected.

Space is not empty. It is full of particles in varying states of charge. When these charges are in equilibrium with it's surroundings, they radiate little if any IR. When a body of opposing charge moves thru such a medium, that interaction generates radiation starting at low and IR and can reach visible (cometary or nebular filaments) range or higher (UV,MW,X,G) if a catastrophic breakdown of the charge separation between particles, or charge sheets surrounding the particle occurs.

Moral of this story:

Just because you can't see something, does not mean it's some new form of matter.

[RobertEarl]

1. Ison is not ice. But what do we see?

I think your op gets us closer to the truth...

As posted elsewhere, here again is an idea abt Ison & comets

Just read a new theory about this thing.... what we see is some kind of electrical 'burn'. The electricity is solar electricity, and as this rock got closer to the sun it reacted more, ie, burned brighter.

Then as it got up close, the electrical charge, being nearly equal on its path, there was less burn. IOW, the sun has several layers of electrical charges which increase in charge the nearer the sun.

Ison could have a polar opposite charge to the sun's?