It's interesting the way language works, and specifically naming. It's almost magic. There's various places where gravitational effects don't seem to line up

It's interesting the way language works, and specifically naming. It's almost magic. There's various places where gravitational effects don't seem to line up with the distribution of mass that we see or expect. Something is generating gravity, that we can't see, in places we didn't expect. Call it 'dark' matter, because it's not shiny. But now that it has a name, it's treated a bit like a proper noun. Dark Matter. We do some observations that probably rule out simple nonluminous planetoids or dark stars. Whatever is causing the galactic rotation discrepancies doesn't seem to be normal matter. That translates into: 'Dark Matter' isn't normal matter. As if it is a certain thing, and not a reference to an unknown set. By naming it, and talking about it, even though we don't understand it, we run the risk of attaching all sorts of presumptions to its identity. We're prematurely normalizing a certain way of thinking about it. We may have done a similar thing to quantum mechanics. (I may not be making much sense here, it's just a thought that struck me and I'm working through it.)