The more I watch what the cosmologists are doing, the more I believe they’ve missed something fundamental.
Dark matter? Dark energy? That mysterious inflation?
It’s all reasonable suppositions, based on their initial assumptions. But are their initial assumptions correct?
Here’s a thought - the cosmologists pretty much ignore everything but mass and gravity, under the assumption that electromagnetic forces cancel each other out, on the large scale. But do they?
We’ve invented dark matter because the gravity generated by the mass that we can see does not generate sufficient force to create the drive the movement that we see. Is it possible that rather than there being matter that we can’t see, that there are forces that we’re ignoring?
It’s all reasonable suppositions, based on their initial assumptions. But are their initial assumptions correct?
I think dark matter and dark energy are both hand waving to distract us from the fact that at a fundamental level, they really don't know squat. I'm not saying they are completely clueless, but it's clear that there are some seriously fundamental things that we simply do not know. While they are in the process of following those things up, why not admit outright that what we do know is merely an approximation of the universe, that is useful in the real world. i.e., we know enough about gravity to predict planetary orbits, and to send spacecraft to Pluto (which IS a planet), and to make use of atomic energy on a fairly primitive level, but we really, really don''t know how the universe actually works.
Here’s a thought - the cosmologists pretty much ignore everything but mass and gravity, under the assumption that electromagnetic forces cancel each other out, on the large scale. But do they?
We’ve invented dark matter because the gravity generated by the mass that we can see does not generate sufficient force to create the drive the movement that we see. Is it possible that rather than there being matter that we can’t see, that there are forces that we’re ignoring?
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