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It seems like the article has cause-and-effect reversed. Dark matter is a result of noticing some problems with the mathematics according to observations, and t
by manwe150 4y ago
It seems like the article has cause-and-effect reversed. Dark matter is a result of noticing some problems with the mathematics according to observations, and trying to introduce extra terms that make the equations balance. Nobody just inserted a lot of extra complexity into the model, then hoped they could twist the experiments to justify it. People have known that this isn't entirely satisfying as a solution.
Otherwise, the article actually seems a surprisingly reasonable complaint about being hard to get funding for trying to develop better alternative models which explain observations better.
- taylodl 4y agothe article actually seems a surprisingly reasonable complaint about being hard to get funding for trying to develop better alternative models which explain observations better But let's be careful to not overgeneralize here. The author is working out of Bonn, Germany. I have no idea how German research gets funded or what their priorities are. More importantly, I have no idea for how that funding model compares with the funding model being used by other countries. All I can reasonably ascertain after reading this article is Germany isn't funding research to develop better alternative models. I have no knowledge for what other countries are funding.