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by simplicio
3241 days ago
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Since it was first used to explain galactic rotation curves, predictions of seeing the signature of dark matter, in the CMB, in gravitational lensing observations, in the structure of galactic clusters, the expansion of the universe, etc have all held up. And these not only are consistent with the existence of dark matter, but roughly indicate the same amount of it as a fraction of mass in the universe. So I disagree strongly that the existence of dark matter hasn't led to other predictions. Indeed, the number of different phenomena that lead to it is one of those things that have made alternative theories so difficult. There are a ton of alternative gravitational theories that can explain one or two of the above phenomena, but trying to match them all (and not contradict other observations), seems to be somewhere between difficult and impossible. |
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