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Old 29-10-2010, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Archy View Post
To cut out the mumbo jumbo, if I were to fire a bullet, I can calculate its trajectory without invoking dark matter and dark energy. Since earth and the bullet are part of the cosmos and the bullet's path can be calculated without invoking dark matter and dark energy, dark matter and dark energy are fictions.
Your example is flawed because the bullet is travelling in space. The bullet is not stationary in space being carried along by the Hubble flow.

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