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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by Paul-ish on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:52PM (#13746713)
> And sure, dark matter is falsifiable. If observations are made where gravity appears to deviate from what's visible and can't be explained by adding invisible mass, that would falsify it.

Whats to stop us from "adding epicycles" when that happens?

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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by mikeash on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:52PM (#13750151)
The same thing that stopped the addition of epicycles to the geocentric model of the solar system: a better theory that explains the observations more naturally.
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