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"95% of the universe we don't understand" Telephysangelists should also start questioning the 5% of what they do understand. All we hear about is DM/DE as if t
by RandomTisk 6y ago
"95% of the universe we don't understand"
Telephysangelists should also start questioning the 5% of what they do understand. All we hear about is DM/DE as if the underlying assumptions that lead us to believe they exist must, at any cost, be true. It reeks of more lost decades of scientific discovery to me, but then again I'm just a bystander.
- Johnjonjoan 6y agoAs a fellow bystander I agree. The problem with science in this age being built on such a massive foundation of knowledge seems to be that it is very counter productive to the radical breakthroughs that in my humble opinion are a major avenue of scientific discovery
- Koshkin 6y agohttps://talktotransformer.com/ https://talktotransformer.com/
- biswaroop 6y agoDM/DE are just two of the simplest theories that can explain the observations (galaxy rotation/accelerating expansion). The "underlying assumptions" are those measurements, and these are being retaken and questioned every year, even though they're held at high confidence.
- Ididntdothis 6y agoI don’t think that’s true. The ideas of Dark Energy and Dark Matter are the best explanations for actual observations. There is no pressure to believe that they must exist. They are just the best we have right now and competing theories must be able to be confirmed by observations which they usually fail at.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoObservational evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to_dark_matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to... The blue is dark matter. The pink is normal matter. It's thought that the two clumps of blue+pink there passed through each other. But the blues went right through each other, undisturbed, while the normal pink stuff formed a shockwave. >most of the mass in the cluster pair is in the form of two regions of dark matter, which bypassed the gas regions during the collision. This accords with predictions of dark matter as only weakly interacting, other than via the gravitational force.