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by raverbashing 2179 days ago
No. Because dark matter is understood mostly to be less interacting matter. Don't think it's a ball of dark stuff, think something you couldn't even see

Whereas he's proposing regular (dark as in color) matter

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> Whereas he's proposing regular (dark as in color) matter

Wouldn't that kind of matter be easily detectable because it would block EM radiation, including visible light?

Yes. "Dark" is misleading, it should be "sparsely-interacting" or something. Well, MACHOs would have been dark in the traditional sense as well. Generally, "we would have seen it" excludes a lot of dark matter candidates, thats what actually makes it "dark"
That's my understanding as well.