[DesertRhino]

“The laws of gravity don’t behave like we expect, therefore it must be magic pixie dust,,,”

It never even crosses their mind that they could be wrong. I feel like in a few hundred years, physicists will shake their heads -in amazement- at the theories that gained mainstream acceptance in this era.

[Sherman Logan]

Quite. I too am astonished at the contortions gone through to explain away the fact that their theories don’t explain the observed facts, rather than considering the possibility that their theories are themselves wrong, and trying to develop new theories that DO explain the observed facts.

OTOH, maybe dark matter does exist. I just object to the assumption that it MUST exist.

I also wonder if some of these anomalies might be explained by the existence of the other 8 or whatever dimensions required by the various string theories, etc.

[stormhill]

Been saying that for years.
When I talk of science I know I sound like an idiot; as a matter of fact I am an idiot. Nevertheless, the answer to the Dark Matter enigma (makes up most of the universe but we can't find any) is very simple: Your theories are wrong.