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by ceejayoz 230 days ago
> Does it bother you that to make relativity work, they had to invent dark matter and dark energy - 96% of the universe's mass-energy - as fudge factors? At what point does "missing a critical factor" become "the model requires constant patching to match observations"?

This would be a lot more compelling from someone who doesn't believe in astrology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631792

(It's interesting that you forget the inverse square law in that case.)