EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t have a bias against new particles. For me as a non astrophysicist, just another theory having a big hole was simply more likely. And the theory of gravity breaks anyway when it approaches quantum theory, why shouldn’t it be broken elsewhere, too?

    But I can easily accept the information given here, primarily the case with uneven distribution, which is a good case for something being there. Now you just have to nail the particle down.

    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      For me as a non astrophysicist, just another theory having a big hole was simply more likely.

      Why? If you don’t have a bias against new particles. Why is a hole in one theory more likely than a hole in another?

      Why shouldn’t it be broken elsewhere, too?

      Why should it?

      But I can easily accept the information given here, primarily the case with uneven distribution, which is a good case for something being there.

      Indeed, people think dark matter is motivated by observations disagreeing with theory in one consistent way, but it’s actually a case of observation showing a large distribution of invisible mass.

      Now you just have to nail the particle down.

      It’s tricky to do, as dark matter is non-interacting by nature. It will likely be a case of process of elimination.