> Just because you have an incorrect assumption about what the informal names imply doesn't mean others do as well. All kinds of names are given by people to r

> Just because you have an incorrect assumption about what the informal names imply doesn't mean others do as well. All kinds of names are given by people to reflect the essence of the entity being named. The name I give to something reflects what I think of it or something about that thing. The use of the word "dark" here is being used to reflect (as you said) our inability to yet explain the described phenomena which, to me, sounds like medieval people talking of witches. These phenomena could have easily be named "Analog24's energy" or "gtsop's matter" like a thousand other forces, particles, laws. Hence, what we have to "accept" is a term that reflects the inability of the human intellect to discover something. It is just silly and I think it shows something about the mentality of contemporary physics I hope my point is clearer now