[zeugma]

I've long thought that the theories surrounding 'dark' matter and energy were just handwaving by physicists and astronomers who were unwilling to utter the phrase "we don't know". I think what is much more likely than some mysterious 'dark' matter that can't be seen, is that there is something fundamental that our modern theories of cosmology are overlooking.

[bar sin·is·ter]

to utter the phrase "we don't know".

Hence the phrase "dark matter", they are basically saying they don't know what is accounting for the additional mass that would account for the additional gravitation. Dark matter is just the term they use, everyone wants to get into a argument over semantics.

[Seruzawa]

It beggars belief, the idea that dark matter and energy make up 95% of the universe. Then that these things are affecting each other gravitationally, but cannot be otherwise detected. We used to call people that made these sorts of claims charlatans.