The names also suggest that Dark Matter is matter, and Dark Energy is energy, while there are still scientists that try to find other ways to explain the data (

The names also suggest that Dark Matter is matter, and Dark Energy is energy, while there are still scientists that try to find other ways to explain the data (tweaking gravity etc). But you have to name them something to talk about them. There probably would have been better names, but physicists are no better at naming than programmers