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Comment Re:This constant assumption that dark matter is ri (Score 1) 69

"...is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists."

The idea of dark matter is not that dark matter exists, it's that the dark matter theory is a placeholder used to explain the observations we see in the universe that are contrary to the physical understandings as we know them currently. The physicists are essentially saying there's a bunch of stuff we just can't explain, and dark matter is a concept that they refer to until we can finally figure out the bigger picture. It may be a while.

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