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New Hubble Release Puts Another Nail In the Coffin of Dark Matter's Competitors (spacetelescope.org)
StartsWithABang writes: When it comes to the structure of the Universe — forming the galaxies, clusters, and Universe as we see it — the normal matter we know of simply isn't enough. Given our best-understood laws of physics, including Einstein's general relativity, what we see of galaxies and the Universe in general simply doesn't match up to our predictions. The simplest solution, arguably, is to just add a new ingredient: a new form of matter, a dark matter if you will. But a counterargument is that we've got the laws of gravity wrong, and that no new matter is necessary. There's only one way to settle an argument like this: with data, evidence and the full suite of observations at our disposal. The newest Hubble release, along with four other independent lines of evidence, rule out modifications of gravity and leave dark matter as the only option standing.
Well yeah. If it didn't move, it would be hand standstillium.
"life circumstances rendered a conventional career infeasible"
You mean the fact that you are a loon? That never stopped anyone.
The best argument against wormholes is that if they existed, the aliens would already be here.
On second thought, that might explain the Kardashians.
I'm not saying it's science... but it's science.
We can detect the sun directly.
You're forgetting which site you're on.
For a lot of people here, the sun has the same level of reality as a girlfriend.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it