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What would you prefer? For scientists to throw up their hands and say there’s a discrepancy whose cause is unknown but it sure looks like a weakly interacting p
by canjobear 5y ago
What would you prefer? For scientists to throw up their hands and say there’s a discrepancy whose cause is unknown but it sure looks like a weakly interacting particle?
Oh wait, that’s the definition of dark matter
- Rury 5y agoPerhaps the problem with some people is in semantics. If that's the definition of dark matter, why not use a better term that means "something that influences things on galactic scales that we can't yet explain". Calling it 'dark matter', implies or assumes that it must be only be what constitutes as 'matter' that's behind the cause. It closes many minds to considering the possibility that something that has no mass or volume could be behind the cause. You know something 'non-mattery'? And that begs the question, if has 'non-mattery' attributes in behavior, perhaps calling it 'matter' in definition is a bit misleading?
- whatshisface 5y agoThey'd prefer a bunch of particle experiments be constructed to approach the problem from a laboratory perspective, which frankly no reasonable person would mind. :)
- canjobear 5y agoSuch experiments have been going on for decades.