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A cosmology without dark matter (self.science)

submitted 8 months ago by DelightfullyDivisive to c/science

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I haven't found anything calling this crank science, although it does make some rather sweeping claims. One is that dark matter does not exist, and another is that the universe is 27 billion years old.

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-universe-dark.html

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[–] Carrolade 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dark matter theories have had competitors for a long time. MOND is a pretty significant one.

A helpful thing to keep in mind is astrophysicists are well aware that theories of the "age of the universe" are closer to that interesting thought experiment phase than a more concrete sort of harder theory. This stuff is still many years from being nailed down even a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but somehow mainstream science gaslit everyone into thinking, that the current model is definitely right, even though there are relevant observations, that are not explained by it. But I guess we just need a new even bigger particle accelerator and then we will definitely find dark matter particles!

[–] DelightfullyDivisive 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know that scientists gaslit anyone. I think it's more the state of journalism driven by the way it is monetized. Chasing SEO drives clickbait headlines and sensational claims to the top of everyone's feed.

I really appreciate the discussion on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh with mainstream science I meant the journalism, probably bad wording.