[24gttghh]

>The entire structure of the universe makes no sense without tons of dark matter and dark energy we can't observe

It's not directly observable, but it's effects are certainly observable in the surrounding organization of baryonic matter. It could very well be an incorrect assumption, but we would need some evidence to the contrary to change our minds, no?

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[uoaei]

> It's not directly observable, but it's [sic] effects are certainly observable

You could say the same thing about the ether, the centrifugal force, and the argument about flat earth.

My money is on dark matter's effects being due to some as-yet-undetectable acclerative force, maybe due to deformative effects of gravity that are only apparent at massive scales. Some sort of extension of GR that takes into account local clustering of energy that it isn't yet doing. But I'm no cosmologist.

Is that what the cosmological constant is all about?

[pfisch]

I'm not saying it is definitely wrong and no one should believe it because it is the best working theory. Based on the track record of science though it is very unlikely that it is 100% correct.