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New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter (phys.org)
submitted 9 months ago by kinther to c/space
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[โ€“] antihumanitarian 25 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Don't get too excited, this is a pretty fringe theory that doesn't really have experimental evidence. They were able to make some observations fit with their theory without dark matter yes, but not all of them. The tired light part in particular has a lot of contradictions with observation that they don't explain.

So interesting, but far from definitive.

[โ€“] AFaithfulNihilist 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If light got tired, wouldn't everything get blurry the further away it were?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm nearsighted, so that happens anyways

[โ€“] AFaithfulNihilist 4 points 9 months ago

Me too but I always knew that it was my eyes not the maximum draw distance of the universe that was to blame.

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