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> The popular press likes to frame the debate as "dark matter vs. modified gravity", but it's really "dark matter vs. dark matter plus modified gravity", which
by throwaway894345 5y ago
> The popular press likes to frame the debate as "dark matter vs. modified gravity", but it's really "dark matter vs. dark matter plus modified gravity", which is much less dramatic.
Honestly for us lay folks there isn't a perceptible difference in the amount of drama between the two. :)
- smegcicle 5y agothere's good amount of drama right under the surface if you look at dark matter as "unexplained fudge-factor that gets bigger any time we look at space with more accurate instruments"