Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows

Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by immibis on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:52AM (#40828808)

Nothing we see here on earth seems to be dark matter. When we look at far away galaxies, they rotate like they were about 20 times bigger than we can see. One hypothesis to explain this is that there actually is 19x more stuff that we can't see. Another hypothesis is that our theories of how galaxies should rotate are wrong.

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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by ThinkBeat on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:55PM (#40834388)

well the article above says that 95% of the universe is made of dark matter and dark energy, as did my Google search. 95% is a lot more than 19%

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Re:Out of Sight, 'Dark Fungi' Run the World from the Shadows by alanbernstein on Sunday June 30, 2024 @03:13AM (#40835623)

You've misread, 95% is a 19:1 ratio.

I think this article presents dark matter as much more of a resolved question than it actually is. It's an unconfirmed hypothesis to explain observed reality. That's not mysticism, it's science in progress.

Perhaps one day a physical experiment will support or invalidate the hypothesis, or a competing one. Until then, we simply don't know the answer, so we think about it. If you don't like that, I guess you should stop thinking about it?

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