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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by Florin_Andrei on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:23PM (#13747080)
> Of course, there's a counter-example in the inner solar system in the form of Vulcan. It was invented to explain Mercury's orbit, but the solution ended up being Relativity. So it's not always the right answer.

If anything, the Vulcan hypothesis was not bold enough. It was a much greater leap of faith to assume that Newton's mechanics was just a low energy approximation, hence the twist in Mercury's orbit.

Anyway, we don't really know what this whole dark matter business is, but for now the prevailing hypothesis is the dark-matter-as-a-new-type-of-particle. Of course, you're welcome to pursue a different line of thought, and let the truest hypothesis win. This is how science works.

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Re:A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists by marcus_holmes on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:53PM (#13750169)
It's how science works, but it's not how politics and human psychology work. Trying to get a paper published that directly contradicts the established theories is almost impossible because people don't like their life's work being thrown away as incorrect. This is why science advances one generation at a time.
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