I'm right here, Mark
Just been offline for a few days
I'll make comment on this later, it's getting rather late now. However, I'll leave you with this...speaking about dark matter and energy. Has anyone ever considered that the micro-fluctuations of spacetime at the quantum level, generating virtual particle pairs, is what is causing galaxies and such to have the anomalous rotation curves we see. Remember, these particle, whether they're virtual or not (unless they're force carriers such as photons, gravitons etc), have mass. Now what acts as the carrier particle for mass...the Higgs boson. The Higgs actually is much heavier than the particles it gives mass to (it's some 100-1000 times heavier than a proton). No matter how fleeting the Higgs might last for, it still must interact with spacetime and create an effect. No matter how fleeting the creation of virtual particle pairs is, how fleeting their existence and how fleeting the creation of mass is...you only have to look at how big space is to see that the effects produced are going to add up. These virtual particle aren't just being produced in extreme situations like black hole event horizons. They're a consequence of the "frothy" nature of spacetime, everywhere.
Anyway, it's something I feel they need to consider...that there's a lot more out there that needs to be factored into their equations before they go trying to find something really exotic. The answer to the problem might be sitting right under their noses and they're too busy trying to be smart to see the answer.
More to come later