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by ianamartin 4005 days ago
Of course dark matter doesn't exist.

Hello, people. Dark matter is the eflourescent ether theory of the 21st century.

There are things that we don't know how to explain right now.

We have some ideas about how they can be explained. But they are really really bad.

We will be laughing at dark matter theory in a few years.

3 comments

You might do well to familiarize yourself with the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Dark matter is the eflourescent ether theory of the 21st century.

The quip I'm fond of is:

   Dark Matter is the Phlogiston
   of Contemporary Cosmology
But, right now, dark matter is the best explanation we have of what we've observed.
That's my prediction as well, but I wouldn't have put it so....abrasively.