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> I have a revulsion for the Dark Matter/Dark Energy thing, that seems to have become conventional thinking in recent decades. Those theories look to me like a
by tablespoon 5y ago
> I have a revulsion for the Dark Matter/Dark Energy thing, that seems to have become conventional thinking in recent decades. Those theories look to me like a tangled beard, just waiting for Occam's Razor.
IMHO, that's sort of what the end of science (or at least particle physics) will look like: detectable inconsistencies or anomalies with no means to probe further to resolve them, but new theories will keep getting produced and maybe even taught.
This might be one of the areas were probing further may not be possible:
> These possibilities make the dark sector “not just a bedtime story,” said Weiner. However, even if the dark sector exists and the familiar neutrinos act as intermediaries, there’s no guarantee that their link is strong enough to reveal what’s hidden. “It is possible that heavy [neutrinos] may be completely inaccessible to any reasonable experiment,” said Josh Spitz of the University of Michigan.
- denton-scratch 5y ago>This might be one of the areas were probing further may not be possible I like this way of thinking. As a kid, I thought that everything could be figured out, eventually, in principle. Now I'm resigned to the prospect that there are things that can't ever be figured out. It's a humbling prospect.