{"id":41355,"date":"2017-04-15T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T06:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41355"},"modified":"2017-04-15T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T06:08:05","slug":"filaments-dark-matter-link-galaxies-across-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/filaments-dark-matter-link-galaxies-across-space.html","title":{"rendered":"Do filaments of dark matter link galaxies across space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41356\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/ANDROMEDA_GALAXY.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41356\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41356\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/ANDROMEDA_GALAXY.jpg\" alt=\"Andromeda in color\" width=\"597\" height=\"401\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDark matter\u201d is very, very mysterious. \u00a0(See my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/08\/were-so-very-clueless.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWe\u2019re so very clueless\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\/or my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865634415\/Materialism-isnt-what-it-used-to-be.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMaterialism isn\u2019t what it used to be.\u201d<\/a>) \u00a0But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/135005\/researchers-image-dark-matter-bridge-galaxies\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we\u2019re learning a bit more about it<\/a>, and what we\u2019re learning is rather weird. \u00a0Certainly it\u2019s nothing that I was ever taught in high school:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zfHJHoZZ2v\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/135005\/researchers-image-dark-matter-bridge-galaxies\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Researchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between Galaxies<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cResearchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between Galaxies\u201d \u2014 Universe Today\" src=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/135005\/researchers-image-dark-matter-bridge-galaxies\/embed\/#?secret=BghehnunMJ#?secret=zfHJHoZZ2v\" data-secret=\"zfHJHoZZ2v\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cDark matter\u201d is very, very mysterious. \u00a0(See my \u201cWe\u2019re so very clueless\u201d\u00a0and\/or my \u201cMaterialism isn\u2019t what it used to be.\u201d) \u00a0But we\u2019re learning a bit more about it, and what we\u2019re learning is rather weird. \u00a0Certainly it\u2019s nothing that I was ever taught in high school: \u00a0 Researchers Image Dark Matter Bridge Between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do filaments of dark matter link galaxies across space?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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