The sad thing is, short of a time machine being invented, we’ll never know for sure what did it.
(That said, I’m beginning to think “dark matter” is just sciencey-sounding bunk scientists came up with to explain stuff they can’t figure out).
To understand Dark Matter, one must first understand why the COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT is a VARIABLE.
we’ll never know for sure what did it.--- be careful with that kind of thinking. Bear in mind the head of the US Patent Office who, near the turn of the last century, said they should close up the USPO because everything that can be invented, had been.
Or closer to the thrust of the thread, prominent scientist Auguste Comte, who wrote in 1842 that it was impossible we should ever know the composition of stars. Less than thirty years later, the science of spectroscopy was developed.
“(That said, I’m beginning to think “dark matter” is just sciencey-sounding bunk scientists came up with to explain stuff they can’t figure out).”
Can you explain how gravity exerts a force?
Can you explain an electrical force?
Can you explain a magnetic force?
No 'thinking' about it, that is exactly WHY they came up with "dark matter".
The 'estimated' MASS of a Galaxy was not enough to exhibit the gravitational force that we perceive based on the movement of objects at the outer fringes of a galaxy. Therefore there had to be more 'mass' that we simply could not see/detect.
“The sad thing is, short of a time machine being invented, we’ll never know for sure what did it.”
You can say the same about any conclusion from any branch of science that speculates on historical events rather than actually doing experimental science.