Talk:Dark matter in fiction

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[edit]

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, it is mentioned that scientists spent a huge amount of time and money looking for dark matter, before realizing it was the white pellets that all the equipment was packed in.

Wasn't it instead "missing matter" that was mentioned? -- Ianiceboy 10:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Same difference. I also think that Adams mentioned Dark Matter, but I borrowed my copy from the library and thus no longer have it. --Scouto2 (talk) 21:02, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dense material[edit]

It seems that most fictional references here are confounding "dark matter" with some incredibly dense material such as neutronium or microsingularities. 22:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Darm matter reactor[edit]

I removed a section I wrote earlier on a 'dark matter reactor' at the end of the Half-Life 2 PC game - I played it again and it was dark energy, not matter after all...

Dark matter bomb[edit]

Removed line "* In the 2007 film Sunshine a Dark Matter bomb is used to restart the sun." as it is infact "the combined fissile materials of the whole planet"; a nuclear bomb "with a mass roughly equivalent to Manhattan Island" and makes no reference to Dark Matter.

In Sunshine, Dark Matter is what caused the early demise of the Sun, namely, a Q-Ball. All the fissile material on Earth was mined to create a NUCLEAR BOMB to reignite the Sun.

98.212.127.132 (talk) 08:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Half-life[edit]

Removed the half-life reference. The Combine are explicitly stated to use dark energy, and the reactor is actually called "dark fusion reactor" in the game.77.81.212.119 (talk) 08:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mass Effect[edit]

Would the video game Mass Effect fit here? As I understand it, the whole premise of the technology in that what we thought was dark matter was really not matter at all, but what we're really seeing is the mass effect caused when an electric current is passed through Element Zero. FTL travel is achieved by creating a field around the ship that makes it effectively have little/no mass, thus allowing it to accelerate beyond light-speed. I'm not quite certain enough about that to add it to the article. Please correct me if I'm wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eowar (talk • contribs) 06:50, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please[edit]

classify the contents like novel/movie/comic/game...--Mato Rei (talk) 16:07, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Essence-Energies distinction[edit]

The Essence-Energies distinction is an important principle of theology in the Eastern Orthodox Church, understood by the historical bishops of that Church, and most famously formulated by Gregory Palamas, defending the hesychast practice. ADM (talk) 05:35, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Philosophy of Dark Matter[edit]

I removed the section "Philosophy of Dark Matter" as it was simply wrong (it is not antimatter, and so on...) Spizzer (talk) 23:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

His Dark Materials[edit]

As you can see in the "Dust" page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials), Pullman relates Dust to dark matter. Dust is a central subject of the novels.187.59.189.68 (talk) 23:02, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]