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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by roryisok on Monday February 27, 2017 @10:55AM (#13745089)
It's more like you're looking at the sky and what you can see doesn't weigh as much as it should. Does Occam's Razor suggest that there's invisible stuff? or that you're weighing stuff wrong?
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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by mikeash on Monday February 27, 2017 @10:58AM (#13745114)
Except it's not, because the "missing" mass is not distributed in the same way as the stuff that emits light. Some places have a lot more "missing" than others.
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