I still don’t really believe in dark matter. Very sketchy stuff. And unsatisfying.https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1215526309167796224 …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Massimo
I still don’t really believe in dark matter. Very sketchy stuff. And unsatisfying.https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1215526309167796224 …
Venkatesh Rao added,
Dark matter is essentially a dummy variable: something that is hypothesized to exist in order to balance the equations — similar to the role that “luminiferous aether” played before Einstein’s discovery of relativity. The next Einstein will figure out what’s really going on.
We don't actually know that for sure! It really could be WIMPs that do satisfy the intensional definition of some sort of "dark matter". Or it could turn out to be like ether, an artifact of wrong equations. And you need a Michelson-Morley not an Einstein for this job.
WIMP = "weakly interacting massive particles" which haven't yet been detected. I believe there have been proposals to rewrite the equations that get rid of the need for WIMPs, but they have their own problems.
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