Not an astronomer obviously but I'd say there's plenty of evidence for the *existence* of dark matter. It's the theories regarding most of it's other properties that currently lack supporting data. Also, in physics there are no "proofs". Just extremely high confidence.
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Well there isn't even evidence, I'd gladly settle for that. At higher and higher energies, it becomes less and less likely that the theory is right
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What? There is plenty of observational evidence for dark matter. (And plenty that dismiss alternative explanations such as modified gravity.) However, re the OP I completely fail to see how that's a non-scientific problem. I'd say it's a very scientific one.
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The point was that there is plenty of disagreement over scientific problems, and that even scientists disagree
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Sure. But that doesn't mean that science as a method doesn't work. On the contrary: It provides a framework to refine and advance our understanding of the Cosmos. That includes that we sometimes find out a previous theory was incomplete.
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Out of curiosity I'd be interested in evidence of dark matter if there is something I missed(probably plenty)
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The classics are rotations of galaxies and gravitational lensing. Both suggest that there's more matter (causing gravity) in galaxies than can be explained otherwise. 1/
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Dark matter also doesn't seem to interact electromagnetically and "clump" together like regular matter, resulting in a different, more "cloud like" distribution. (Apparently this is also verified by CBM observations, but I really don't understand the details there. :)
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Btw, there are galaxies with more and galaxies with less dark matter relative to the regular matter content, ruling out that we just don't understand regular matter well enough.
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There are galaxy collisions that somehow (yes, I don't know all the details :) separate dark matter and regular matter so that they have different centers of mass. This can be observed via gravitational lensing as well.
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I remember that there is much more but can't recall any of the details off the top of my head right now.
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