if you interpreted that as an outright dismissal that dark matter is correct, then again, you have entirely missed the point... Saying that "not having evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist" is not a strong argument for dark matter, or a strong argument against alternatives. It's pleading, and doesn't really imply anything meaningful. I hear it when people ask for proof that god exists.

I don't understand why you insist that I have claimed dark matter is incorrect, maybe I am failing to communicate my point properly, but that definitely is not it at all. I would appreciate it if you took some of your valuable time to respond to literally anything else that I have actually said, thanks

at no point have i dismissed dark matter, i have only presented arguments against the evangelization of dark matter, which this article supports. you argued beside the point, and have now volunteered yourself to exit the conversation.

rest easy, your words are as sharp as you are

Okay, I concede you that. It started out as "matter we can't see," and today a popular interpretation of that is that it doesn't interact with light at all. My mistake.

But, that also wasn't really my point.

it's called dark matter because it only interacts gravitationally, not because we can't explain why it should be there. dark matter is not a bad model, it does explain observations well. we are not exactly in the early stages as far as that is concerned. nor are we in the early stages of attempting to explain what exactly that matter is, a lot of things have been ruled out that seemed promising at first. i would agree that the dark matter hypothesis is the most attractive solution available to us now, but the continuous failure of dark matter particle experiments, along with no unified theory to work from, makes it difficult to say that it is probably the right one. General relativity does not predict dark matter - we infer it from our observations. No experiment has been able to confirm hypotheses about the origins of dark matter, and there have been quite a few of them so far. It's good that we've come up with lots of ideas, and it can't hurt to keep trying, but we also know that general relativity and the standard model are not complete theories, so it seems unreasonable to me to argue that, because general relativity is nearly perfect, we shouldn't doubt dark matter.

yes, and so far no explanatory models for dark matter have been successful. Including dark matter as a parameter to match observed data is not the same thing.

sir bud dude, dark matter is a numerical correction to GR to match observed gravitation in galaxies, so he says "apart from" because it would be absurd to suggest that gravitational observations are direct evidence of dark matter

yes, the bit where he says that no evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist is frankly embarrassing

these are some frustratingly weak arguments from a nobel laureate. I wonder if that comes with the "Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus" title

good, now they just need to stop burning things to run the machine

yeah, i used to live in south florida too. fact is there's people who have already been hit worse than just their AC - something to remember when saying things like "so and so that i've never met doesn't understand how tough i got it"

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consider yourself fortunate that the AC is your main problem

it sounds like your mom set you up with a shitty therapist that is cooperating with her tbh

nearly every day it seems

if you fold your sheets properly they will take up less storage space, and that is more than enough reason for me.

is this philosophy or poetry? I'm not sure the author knows