I believe in most scientific theories, but I really don’t buy dark matter. It is supposed to make up 3/4 of the universe, but no one has detected it. It reminds me a lot of aether. It is just something thrown out there to explain why the observed universe does not match the theoretical universe. I think we are missing one or more of three possibilities:
- Our theories about gravity are a little off, unlikely, but possible.
- There is another long distance binding force holding the universe together.
- We live in a multidimensional universe where what we think is dark matter is just ordinary mass effecting other masses in a dimension we cannot perceive.
Yeah, it is a little esoteric for a blog posting, but I just wanted to write down what I thought.