RE: ASTRO: Dark Matter problem gets worse!

From: Ramez Naam (ramezn@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 22:23:34 MST


From: EvMick@aol.com [mailto:EvMick@aol.com]
> According to my (very limited) understanding of Quantum
> Mechanics ....as
> suggested by the dual slit photon interference
> studies.....Everett suggested
> that it might all be explained by multiple <infinite?>
> parallel universes...
>
> Might not the parallel universe concept explain the missing mass?

I wouldn't think so, since by that argument all objects (not just galaxies)
would have increased mass corresponding to their mass in parallel universes.
For our purposes, whether or not the parallel universes interpretation of QM
is correct, the missing mass would seem to be in our universe.



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