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I suppose we need to look out for them to publish a paper on their findings.

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🚬🐸🍺 -> 🪿 Yes I think he will struggle now. Also the Tories are, for no reason I can fathom, doing a bit better now, plus he has Restore nibbling off bits of his target voter segment on the far far right. With a 1st past the post electoral system these factors and the air of sleaze and illegality that surrounds him and his people, I no longer see him getting many seats at the next election. I have always suspected in any case that Farage is happier attacking from outside than actually developing a real plan for government. He must be tempted to throw in the sponge and get back on the gravy train of US speech-making. Over there a lot of people will be happy to pay $500 a head to hear him tell them how Europe is finished.😆. And without Farage, Reform has had it. Blowjob Bob, Cruella Braverperson and Lee Anderthal have jumped from one sinking ship to another one.

I think you will find that attempting to bring disputes from other forums to this one will be viewed negatively by moderation. As for other forums, you have a search engine. Based on my impression of you, you are not somebody I would recommend to another forum as adding a great deal of value.

I don't know how the weak interaction works. I'm just repeating what @swansont and @MigL suggested as a means for a WIMP to interact with an atom. But if the constituents of Dark Matter have magnetic properties I can imagine that could in principle have observable consequences.

Oh now that is interesting. I had thought Dark Matter was said not to take part in EM interactions. But if WIMPs can have a magnetic moment that clearly can't be right. So we have two possible mechanisms now: momentum transfer via the Weak Interaction, or via a magnetic interaction. But I would have thought if these things have a magnetic moment they might be subject to EM absorption and emission via magnetic dipole interactions with EM radiation. So they would not be 100% dark! Although.....thinking aloud here......unless there was something to create space quantisation, i.e. so that the energy of the state depended on spin orientation, I suppose there would be no absorption or emission.

A collision must imply a force of repulsion, surely? These are QM entities, after all, not billiard balls.

Would the Weak interaction produce a force of mutual repulsion then?

I know next to nothing about the physics proposed for WIMPs (if they exist). But if they are not subject to the EM interaction, in what sense can a WIMP "collide" with an atom of Xe? Something to do with the Strong Force? Or something else? And why would this create a cascade of electrons?

It’s a question of accuracy rather than sensibilities. As we have learned more about the early Middle Ages we have come to recognise a lot more was going on than c.18th and c.19th historians thought, raised as they were on the notion of the Roman empire as some kind of golden age. Details in the link I provided.

No historian speaks any longer about the Dark Ages. We now know they were far from “dark” in terms of culture and civilisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

The geology of the British Isles is like a Rubik’s Cube. It takes many twists and moves to unscramble it over geological time. The Tornquist Sea closed about half a billion years ago and there was plenty going on before that. Scotland is particularly nightmarishly complex.

Exactly what my question would be.

Well yes I can agree this describes a particular attitude within Dutch society, but not that it is the official policy of the Netherlands. If the author asserts it is the latter, I would take issue with that, on the basis of my own experience of living there. The elephant in the room is indeed Islam, but I suggest it is a particularly assertive form of what has come to be known as political Islam, which seems to be relatively recent movement within some branches of the religion. I can quite understand the society coming into conflict with that, as the whole point of it is to challenge the culture, mores and behaviour of the host society.

This reading of the Netherlands is incorrect. It indeed considers itself a secular state, as does France, but in neither case do they consider that merely following a religion makes somebody “non-integrated”. What might make someone non-integrated would be not speaking Dutch and not accepting or tolerating the laws and conventions of the Dutch.