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No our theories were wrong, that was obvious, dark matter and dark energy are (part of) the new theory

We're going with them because all the other new theories end up requiring fractional dimensions or some similarly bizarre space time and still don't end up explaining things as well as "I dunno guys maybe there's just some stuff we can't see". We already know there's a bunch of stuff we can't see, dark matter is just some other kind of stuff we can't see. Dark matter is on the correct side of the razor.




The shift here is that dark matter is detected only in aggregate. And massive aggregates at that. What are the properties of dark matter? Where does it come from? How does it interact with other matter, light or dark? No idea, because it's only detected as a correction term.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster We know there's a bunch of mass we can't see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACS_J0025.4-1222

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_44

We have had direct detection of dark matter since the 50s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

And the generally successful standard model predicts several possible additional forms of dark matter e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralino

I mean no shit there are in answered questions. We aren't omniscient. this is how it works.




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