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To: yesthatjallen

dark matter constitutes ~27% of the universe, ordinary matter <5% and ~32% dark energy


So if dark matter does not exist, what of dark energy? The theory, as written in the article, does not account for dark energy.


18 posted on 03/17/2024 9:35:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Dark matter is an explanation for why galaxies spin much faster than our model for gravity permits by given the galactic mass their stellar population implies. For dark matter not to exist, our model for gravity and/or our model for stellar mass has to be wrong.

Dark energy is simply a plug label for whatever is causing the well-observed accelerating expansion of the universe. The only way it doesn’t exist is if those observations of expansion are wrong.


22 posted on 03/17/2024 9:48:26 AM PDT by only1percent
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