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To: NormsRevenge
It isn't really a mystery, or at least the correct mystery. Dark matter was always hypothetial entity created simply because the standard model of the cosmos didn't match the observed universe. It was a fudge factor. Now if it is proven that dark matter does not exist, then they are back to the real mystery of why the standard model does not fit the observed universe.

People sometimes put too much faith in a mathematical model that they ignore the real inuverse, but eventually, observed data must rule mathematical models. Are you watching, global warmists?

11 posted on 04/20/2012 6:04:09 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

it’s like the cosmic missing link that - lo! - is still missing!


13 posted on 04/20/2012 6:15:14 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (void where prohibited.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Dark Matter reminds me of Ptolemy's equant.

If you have to invent something to make the model match reality then your model is probably wrong.

21 posted on 04/20/2012 8:31:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (In most cases, revenge is not a good thing. In other cases, it's the only thing.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

There is overwhelming observational evidence for dark matter. It doesn’t violate the Standard Model and it isn’t a fudge factor.


26 posted on 04/21/2012 2:17:32 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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