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"Because the theory made predictions that were then checked." ? What predictions and made and then tested by 'Dark Matter'? Dark Matter was conceived of the o
by edblarney 10y ago
"Because the theory made predictions that were then checked."
? What predictions and made and then tested by 'Dark Matter'?
Dark Matter was conceived of the other way around - it helps confirm predictions that don't actually work properly.
If Dark Matter theory made testable predictions, it would be accepted no? Where are these experiments?
- Synaesthesia 10y agoIt's widely accepted. And I'm also a sceptic. More recently scientists have started actually mapping out regions where dark matter is concentrated than - from gravitic perturbations - and have discovered galaxies which contain more dark matter than others, up to 99% as well as the mentioned globular clusters which contain very little dark matter.
- edblarney 10y ago"More recently scientists have started actually mapping out regions where dark matter is concentrated than - from gravitic perturbations " This is not evidence of Dark Matter - it's really just quantifying and classifying the perturbations and anomalies derivations in gravity that we see. Basically, more detail to the observation that 'galaxies are not rotating the way we think they should'. That doesn't validate Dark Matter, it just more deeply quantifies the unknown.