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Surely the idea of it being a new kind of matter that interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically yields some testable result? Does it actually yield
by renewiltord 2y ago
Surely the idea of it being a new kind of matter that interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically yields some testable result? Does it actually yield nothing testable with today’s experimental methods?
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoThere is a lot of indirect evidence for dark matter. All the direct tests for dark matter particles we have performed have found nothing so far - but since we have no idea what it might be, there's a lot of possibilities to test.
- uoaei 2y ago"Evidence" in heavy scare quotes, considering, again, the tautological nature of the claims around the existence of dark matter. "Something must be here that we are missing" is, frankly, a bullshit hypothesis that need not be entertained unless researchers can actually prove there is some worthiness to the claim. Anything stronger than "maybe our theory is wrong" would suffice!
- mannykannot 2y agoIt is tendentious to point out only the difficulties in finding affirmative evidence for dark matter when MOND is doing no better in that regard. If, by that standard, dark matter is bullshit, then, mutatis mutandis, so is every other hypothesis that has been presented so far - but the observations that prompted them in the first place are not going away. It is inconsistent to call just one of them bullshit, and pointless to call them all that.