@astro123 The following excerpt is the crux of the author’s argument regarding DM, & it points to the dark elephant in the room that a lot of physicists are bo

@astro123 The following excerpt is the crux of the author’s argument regarding DM, & it points to the dark elephant in the room that a lot of physicists are bothered by but don’t want to discuss: “It's perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe? The answer lies in a peculiar feature of cosmological physics that is not often remarked. For a crucial function of theories such as dark matter, dark energy and inflation, which each in its own way is tied to the big bang paradigm, is not to describe known empirical phenomena but rather to maintain the mathematical coherence of the framework itself while accounting for discrepant observations. Fundamentally, they are names for something that must exist insofar as the framework is assumed to be universally valid.”