"Dark Matter" defies parsimony. Occam's Razor suggests rejecting the assumption that spacetime is uniform. The search for "Laws" may be a parochialism built int

"Dark Matter" defies parsimony. Occam's Razor suggests rejecting the assumption that spacetime is uniform. The search for "Laws" may be a parochialism built into human epistemology. Advanced aliens may be comfortable with the idea of "space weather" and local variations. :)