Well, imaginary things do tend to be invisible.
Dark Matter is just the name we give to the fact that the most widespread and accepted cosmological constructs don’t conform to the empirical evidence.
It’s a pooka, like Harvey.
Maybe it camouflaged!......................
There are theories that work without resorting to “dark matter” pixie dust, but the physicists and cosmologists just prefer their existing theories, because they still hold out hope they can prop them up if they find the “dark matter”.
I don’t think they ever will, since it isn’t there, so eventually they’ll have to amend their theories. Sometimes in science, though, it takes the older generation dying off before they can break out of the herd mentality and embrace new theories.
Dark matter - the great big C at the back end of the integral.
“That’s a big twinkie.”
YES! That’s it! Some dark matter must have entered Hillary’s email server’s hard drive!
“Dark matter exists, but is invisible” = pure science.
“God exists, but is invisible” = hysterical, ignorant freaks.
gotcha.
You’re exactly right. In 1993, calculations given at a large symposium showed that there wasn’t enough matter in the universe to cause it to ever contract again. Within 2 years, dark matter had been invented to enable a future contraction. A great sigh of relief was heard at that news.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, ...”
Well so much for the dark matter “fudge factor”, really seemed slick to make the equations work out.......... :^)
“You do not know the power of the dark side.” — Vader
Dark matter==Human-caused global warming??
Or completely made up
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