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		nostrebored on Oct 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Too many new papers may mean novel ideas rarely ra... Calculations involving dark matter might as well be an experiment in curve fitting. We won’t find dark matter in your or my lifetime, because it doesn’t exist. It is a convenient, flexible, and inelegant fudge factor.

xadhominemx on Oct 29, 2021 | [–]

No, not really. We can observe it indirectly and have mapped out its structures. And intuitively, why do you find it implausible there is a massive particle that only interacts via gravitational force?

TuLithu on Oct 28, 2021 | [–]

A "kludge," if you will?

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