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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by empath75 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:43AM (#21980991)
Cosmologists are behaving like real scientists. There is a gap in our knowledge of physics which appears to be dark matter and dark energy. That's something that needs to be resolved, one way or the other. Currently they are expending a lot of effort looking for dark matter and energy. If it ends up being wasted effort, that would be embarrassing, but it wouldn't have been wrong to look.
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Re:Evidence that the key assumption made in discovery of dar... by ncmncm on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:21PM (#21994774)
Announcing far and wide that the Universe is certainly 96 percent invisible stuff that has never been identified in any way is not what a real scientist would do, if it mattered in any way.

All we really know is that the equations we have don't match the universe we see. Dark-this and dark-that are no better than guesses that seem to bring things back in line with our favored theories, until some actual mechanism is identified.

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