(October 5, 2012 at 4:36 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: Yes but doubters would say it only fits observations because inflation, dark matter/energy have been invented with all the right parameters to make it fit. Dark energy violates one of the best-tested laws of physics the conservation of energy and matter, since it produces energy at a titanic rate out of nothing - that's quite an unanswered question.
I too used to be of the opinion that dark matter/dark energy seemed to be too much of a convenient prop for the theory; it struck me as too much like the ad hoc 'epicycles' explanation for the discrepancies in the outer planets' orbits. However it appears that evidence for dark matter/energy has been observed - in the case of dark energy, directly:
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observi...found.aspx
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news...background
http://www.space.com/17133-dark-matter-a...-rays.html
http://www.space.com/14176-dark-matter-b...eiled.html
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