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Victra_au_Julii t1_iuaj791 wrote

Reply to comment by forte2718 in Is dark matter orbiting galaxies with the same speed as normal matter? by taracus

>about dark matter never being directly observed (it has),

Do you mean a type of dark matter has been observed? That doesn't mean this particular observation is the dark matter that is responsible for the differences in our calculations - measurements for galaxies.

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forte2718 t1_iuao3ig wrote

>Do you mean a type of dark matter has been observed?

Yes as I explained two posts prior, we have observed dark matter directly — three types of dark matter, in fact: the electron neutrino, muon neutrino, and tau neutrino.

>That doesn't mean this particular observation is the dark matter that is responsible for the differences in our calculations - measurements for galaxies.

Yes, I explained that too, also in the second to previous post. Perhaps you should go back and read it!

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Victra_au_Julii t1_iubkfor wrote

I was being tongue in cheek. No we have not observed dark matter, as in, the dark matter that makes the massive difference in mass observed in the universe. Those things you mentioned are not what makes up most Dark Matter.

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