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That's not entirely fair, because treating it as "matter" gives a quite good mathematical fit for current observations so far, while the first experimental obse
by ifdefdebug 10y ago
That's not entirely fair, because treating it as "matter" gives a quite good mathematical fit for current observations so far, while the first experimental observation of light speed ever made immediately falsified the ether hypothesis.
- hzhou321 10y agoIt took a while even after the experiment was repeated a couple times. And even after the experiment only very few could abandon the idea of ether, and only after abandon the idea of ether, they see the new physics. Now with dark matter, we have no experimental idea and it is out-of-reach. It is there to protect the consistency (cover up the inconsistency) of our current understanding -- familiar?