[GraceG]

I think “Dark matter” is a fudge factor to describe a property of gravity that we haven’t figured out yet.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"We" know it exists because cosmologists and physicists have equations that prove it.

Forget that these equations are based on a construct created out whole cloth...the science is settled...is it not?

[DannyTN]

[Buckeye McFrog]

See the thread below about the defecating bandit in Akron.

[I want the USA back]

It doesn’t absorb energy or radiate it. That makes it impossible to detect.
They talk about it because their beloved equations allow it. They won’t ask instead if their equations are wrong.

[I want the USA back]

It doesn’t absorb energy or radiate it. That makes it impossible to detect.
They talk about it because their beloved equations allow it. They won’t ask instead if their equations are wrong.

[TheZMan]

Where to start.

How do we know the light is distorted?
If we know it’s distorted, how do we know it’s because of dark matter?
How do we know the level of distortion?
How do we know we’re interpreting the level of distortion correctly?

Pluto is still a planet. Most of the rest is just garbage.

[RinaseaofDs]

The call it ‘dark’ because its the color of fudge. As in ‘fudge factor’.

Can’t see it, can’t detect it, but the universe isn’t behaving the way it should, gravimetrically. Let’s call it ‘dark matter’.

With a speculum and a flashlight, however, we can detect it.

[Disambiguator]

The Democrat Party is the physical manifestation of Dark Matter.

[samtheman]

Excellent piece. Thanks for posting this on FR.

[chrisser]

Dark matter may exist.

Or it may be this century’s Ether.

[Eddie01]

The strong force is an infinite point of finite gravity which neutrons and positrons are drawn into orbit around.

The higher energy electrons exist outside the nucleus.

All dark matter is made up of matter traveling faster than the speed of light.

[baddog 219]

I don’t know anything about dark matter... But I know there’s a black hole in the white house....

[adorno]

I suspect there is an underlying “uncompressable” space time metric that lies “under” the normal fabric of space time.

There is a very 'simple' explanation for why we can't see 'dark matter'.

It's not there for 'us' to see. It's there for us to detect.

We can detect it because it's 'there'.

The problem lies with what constitutes the 'there'.

My theory is that, 'there' is the existence of what time and space are all about.

Scientists, and laypeople, all talk about matter and energy and the rules (rules: aka, the laws that govern how mass and energy interact, essentially, the math that scientists and mathematicians use to try to explain the universe).

So, we have matter and energy and the rules, and then there is the existence of 'time'.

If time is real (and nobody says it's not), and scientists speculate that time travel is possible, then, in order to have travel to the past (or future), then, logically, to get 'there', that 'there' must be the existence of the universe in other time-frames. If it's at all possible, to travel in time, we must be traveling to some real place, but in a different time. That 'real place', in a different 'time', is what must constitute the dark matter that is being detected and that we can't see. So, the instances of the universe in different time frames (an infinite number of time frames) are what are interacting with our current instance of the universe, and which can't be seen, but are being detected as some strange and unseen force.

(I expect the Nobel science prize for that theory. :) )