I know you hate establishment, but you're assuming a bit too much malice in the Dark Matter hypothesis. There's a large amount of mass and volume not accounted for, if there's such a large discrepancy in a near air tight model, it's fair for physicists to consider this as the number one possibility, because other options are much more difficult to fit into the current state of physics, or more difficult to experiment with.
It isn't as strict a belief in the same sense as deities or spirits, because they're constantly seeking a method of measure.
You're bothered by the lack of observation of particles, but it's possible for a kind of mass to exist that doesn't interact with the typical physical forces, just gravity, that's a lack of imagination on your part.
If Dark Matter exists, we should have found proof of it by now because it would have to very widely distributed throughput the universe. It would even present in and around the solar system.
The alternative is that, over very large distance, gravity does not behave like other forces. Personally, this appears more likely even if it would completely disrupt a lot of our current theoretical models about physics and the universe.
I know you hate establishment, but you're assuming a bit too much malice in the Dark Matter hypothesis. There's a large amount of mass and volume not accounted for, if there's such a large discrepancy in a near air tight model, it's fair for physicists to consider this as the number one possibility, because other options are much more difficult to fit into the current state of physics, or more difficult to experiment with.
It isn't as strict a belief in the same sense as deities or spirits, because they're constantly seeking a method of measure.
You're bothered by the lack of observation of particles, but it's possible for a kind of mass to exist that doesn't interact with the typical physical forces, just gravity, that's a lack of imagination on your part.
If Dark Matter exists, we should have found proof of it by now because it would have to very widely distributed throughput the universe. It would even present in and around the solar system.
The alternative is that, over very large distance, gravity does not behave like other forces. Personally, this appears more likely even if it would completely disrupt a lot of our current theoretical models about physics and the universe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68VZXmjBUk&ab_channel=IsaacArthur