CERN Physicist Says Dark Matter May Be an Illusion

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 13, 2011 @12:18PM from the lunch-dark-matter-doubly-so dept.

anonymousNR writes "A CERN physicist has a new theory explaining the rotational curves of galaxies. 'The key message of my paper is that dark matter may not exist and that phenomena attributed to dark matter may be explained by the gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum,' Hajdukovic told PhysOrg.com. 'The future experiments and observations will reveal if my results are only (surprising) numerical coincidences or an embryo of a new scientific revolution.' Given the many theories around explaining various observations in recent times, there seems to be a breakthrough on its way in our understanding of the cosmos."

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Re:no dark matter... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-08-13 21:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just a little FYI - theory of evolution is untested so far (at least at the scale it is intended to apply on), more than that - it's logically flawed. Look up "irreducible complexity" and at least try to be open-minded.
Just because we did not invent a new theory to replace it doesn't mean it is still correct. Ancients thought that the world was flat because there wasn't mainstream evidence to prove otherwise. Does it mean they were right?