Talk:Dark matter in fiction
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[edit] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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)
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)
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...
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)
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)
