Yeah, that pretty much confirms what I was getting at: you believe you understand the theory-scape here, and you think that unobserved matter could be a valid e

Yeah, that pretty much confirms what I was getting at: you believe you understand the theory-scape here, and you think that unobserved matter could be a valid explanation, because you know nothing about this why it in't. You're not wrong to doubt them for yourself, or to have fun thinking about it, or whatever, but casting it as some kind of ossified 'conventional thinking' that we should all be distrusting of isn't okay, and sounds a lot like other types of weird science distrust that happen a lot these days. Not entirely your fault, though; physics does a really bad job of, as, you say, educating people at a level more sophisticated than dumb-downed "because we said so" crap. But there know there are a lot of good youtubers and blogging filling in 'educated layperson' level of explanation.