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,
There is something with enormous gravity influencing the movement of astronomical systems in ways for which we have no explanation. It is meant to be a placeholder until we can figure it out. This has worked before, e.g., Neptune, and perhaps planet 9 soon.
Trust the model that has substantial predictive power, then back fill the holes as we learn more.
Except Neptune distortions didn't require assumption of exotic types of matter, just an undetected lump of regular matter, so the analogy doesn't quite work. It's not a limitation of instruments or observations. It's an ontological limitation of theory.
A fair point. But, it’s impossible to deduce any real meaning from the universe around us, if we don’t stand upon the foundations of a few basic assumptions about the universe. Even if they’re only close approximations.
"gravity" itself has undergone 2 redefinitions that completely altered its ontological character. It was a "force" under Newton, a space-time curvature effect under Einstein, and now a "wave-particle" under quantum gravity type theories. So the word doesn't matter much.
Here are some alternative models: 1) Interference Theory/Harmonic resonance http://interferencetheory.com/Research/ResearchVenusBlueprintDatabase/files/7a3b9f689b121aa242e38e18d0d88be8-98.html … 2) Subquantum Kinetics https://starburstfound.org/subquantum-kinetics/ … 3) The Gravity Cycle http://www.feandft.com/gravity/ 4) Fractal Implosion http://www.fractalfield.com/conjugategravity/ … 5) Third Wave http://milesmathis.com/third.html
Wow! ALL those pages look like 15% time-cube level crackpottery :D
The only difference between crackpottery and canon is adoption. 
that's what they WANT you to believe
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