(January 15, 2019 at 7:13 am)pocaracas Wrote:(January 15, 2019 at 6:08 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Sounds convenient when you can know something is there without saying you actually observed it, but rather cite something that may or may not indicate it to try and prove it. To suggests it accounts for 85-95 percent of the matter in the universe is nothing but fantasy and sensationalism. But you know, it's an "excuse" why the original Big Bang prediction was a bust. Couldn't account for all the gaps, splits, pockets, etc... in CMB, so make up something to account for it that can't be disproven due to the inability to observe it directly. Not drinking the Kool-Aid on this one.
Whatever happened to the conversation about intelligence?
Anyway, yes "Dark Matter" is a placeholder name until more info about the thing comes through.
So far, it is only known that there is something producing large scale influence on the trajectories of galaxies... apparently through gravity, so matter is the best description we have for it (because mass is the thing that produces gravity, you know?). We can't see any light coming from it, so dark also fits. And that's it.
And that is a fair statement.
