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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

This headline is pretty dumb. Dark matter is not a myth, it's clearly there in the data, so it exists for sure. Now the name might be completely wrong as it's neither dark and may not be matter, but it still exists. We should have just called it Pete or something, so the name wouldn't imply anything about it's properties. But the press always seem to think dark matter is something thought up to fix something, but that's not the case at all.

The numbers in the data don't match up and the difference is what's labeled as "Dark matter", simply putting another label on it or dismissing it doesn't fix the underlying data not matching up. And it isn't like a fault in the data, we've seen it in ALL the data, no matter what you look at or how you look at it, the signs of dark matter can be seen.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

But the press always seem to think dark matter is something thought up to fix something, but that’s not the case at all.

The numbers in the data don’t match up and the difference is what’s labeled as “Dark matter”,

Is defining something as the difference between a prediction and measurement not exactly the same as thinking something up to fix the discrepancy?

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