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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I do not understand the standard model as well as I once thought I did but that is to be expected I am not a professional but I dont think the higgs accounted for the mass most of us thought it did, and all that tells me is I only read the hype on astronomy daily and the like.
I dont know how you could establish what I suggest particularly having to get those who are so very, understandably, very happy with GR.
Frankly I recon that GR should not need dark matter nor should dark energy be a mystery.
GR is a classical theory it does not need to know why matter can tell space how to bend. All I suggest is really a mechanical type pressure but diehard GR supporters dont need it and they dont, I just think that it would make more sence that something needs adjustment in our math than to believe, what 80 or 90% is stuff we cant see or explain.
I mean I would be thinking maybe just maybe our sums are leading us down the wrong road.
But how do I know one would think the professionals have very good reason to believe dark matter is real. And well if its not real in time they must figure it out.
But as to we each could share ourcrack pot ideas I suggest that usually does not end well, could be worse than discussing religion or politics.
The thing I learnt from my gra ity trip was it does not matter what I think in so far as I dont have to convince anyone. I can imagine it whatever way I like with no neex to convince others I have something they need to know. I have been there however a d happy to step backbefore I lost it.. became a crank etc.
Alex
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I've always felt very uncomfortable with the idea of dark energy/matter. It feels a little too close to the method Theists use, interposing a preferred mechanism for things they don't understand, and then looking for the evidence that would support their beliefs (very unscientific, IMO, but what do I know?).
Okay, so the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and galaxies rotate faster than they should. Nothing wrong with saying 'We don't know why, and it could be caused by a number of factors'. But calling it dark matter/energy seems predicated on an expected result and seems particularly narrow. I'll stick my neck out and say that I don't think they'll ever find an exotic form of dark matter or energy. Far more likely that they'll discover new physics that explains it, much like a certain patent clerk did a while back.