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Here's the thing about dark matter: basically everyone would rather have almost any answer other than undetectable WIMPs. They've tried. Very hard. And yet, her
by andrewflnr 4y ago
Here's the thing about dark matter: basically everyone would rather have almost any answer other than undetectable WIMPs. They've tried. Very hard. And yet, here we are.
Here's the thing about science: reality doesn't actually owe us elegant or in any way aesthetic explanations of anything. We've gotten so many of them that we've started taking them for granted, started feeling entitled. But it's only a feeling.
- scotty79 4y agoMACHOs haven't been completely ruled out yet and it's still second best explanation for dark matter considered.
- andrewflnr 4y agoYou go ahead and keep believing as the hiding places are steadily eroded. But the smart money is not on MACHOs, to say the least.
- scotty79 4y ago> But the smart money is not on MACHOs, to say the least. That might be because it's easier to dream up and get funding for crazy axion detection equipment ... and there's not much you can do to make more microlensing get observed.