No dark matter?

[lilphil1989]

The Quran insists on seven superimposed heavens; every Moslem knows this. We are in the lowest heaven, Angels are in the seventh, and Satan (Jinn) is in one heaven in-between. However all seven heavens are superimposed. There are two angels at your shoulders right now. The Quran says that we cannot see them nor collide with them but we can detect their gravity. However these are the exact same properties of Dark Matter, we cannot see them nor collide with them however we can detect their gravity. String Theory explains what they are: They are mass in another dimension.

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You don't need string theory to explain dark matter. All you need is some form of matter that doesn't interact electromagnetically.
I would say that the best candidate at the moment, by Occam's razor, at least until we know more are WIMPs. We already know that there are massive particles that only see the weak interaction and gravity: neutrinos. So all that we require is something like a heavy neutrino. Actually, if they had right-handed chirality, the wouldn't see the weak interaction either, and there you have it: something non-colliding (although collision isn't even a well-defined concept quantum-mechanically) and gravitationally interacting.

But I'm sure with enough imagination you could twist the words of the quran and claim that it predicts this too.


Plus, string theory has no experimental verification. As I've already said, at this point it's pure conjecture, and that will remail the case until it makes some solid experimental predictions.
What will happen if it makes predictions and they're falsified? You'll just reinterpret the verses and claim that they disprove string theory and that muslims knew that all along.