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Regarding Dark Matter and Dark Energy. How scientists know it's there:
- i'm really skeptical about dark matter and energy. more likely a problem with our understanding of gravity than that 96% of the universe is made of dark stuffsarahfailin
- Word, and do you believe that science is committed to understanding it through scientific methods?monospaced
- It's a totally made up thing so their calculations work and they don't have to admit they have no fucking clue what they're doing...set
- Made up, or based on measurements. They've calculated mass and observable mass and there's a huge diffmonospaced
- The term for the missing matter is "dark" but it does fit some theoretical models, hence the push to figure it out.monospaced
- Nope. Not one thing is known about Dark mater/energy. Science blokes are speculating that Supersymmetry, the bolt-on fix to the Standard Model, will generate aMorning_star
- ...WIMP (a ‘camp’ particle) that will shine a light on what DM is. The evidence for supersymmetry will be found, or not, in the next few weeks at CERN.Morning_star
- If supersymmetry isn’t proven then the current model we have for the universe is a load of old bollocks.Morning_star
- What is known is that it has mass. Are you saying that there's nothing to account for the mass we can't observe?monospaced
- Dark Matter is a placeholder name for the stuff which we can barely detect by its gravity, but does not interact with matter in any other way.Morning_star
- Yeah, the only thing we've directly observed is greater gravity than we can account for based on what matter is visible.sarahfailin
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