Cosmology: Dark matter proven? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 08, 2012, 01:31 (4523 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

"Because there was nothing else in the area, the only possible explanation was that dark matter in the shape of a filament was the cause."
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> > > God did it.. :P
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> > > Why is that the only possible explanation? It is the only possible explanation because any other possible explanation would require them to admit that there is a flaw with their model overall?
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> > Gravitational lensing fits all theories so far. we are stuck with it.
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> Not really.. I have been kicking around a thought about this for a long time, and I admit to having absolutely no more evidence than a hunch, but my gut tells me they are wrong. 
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> The best I know how to explain the basis for this hunch is this. For all of the so called fundamental forces, we can directly measure them in some way. All of the except gravity. Mathematically, gravity makes sense. It fits... I get that. But, we don't have any direct method of measuring it. The premise behind it is really weird as well. Something that has mass exerts a force on another object, yet we can make no direct measurement of that force nor can we come up with any reasonable answer of how that force is generated. There is some hoohah bout it being a bend in space time or an inherent property of mass, but that just means we don't have a friggin clue. So what they are doing is basing their interpretation on an assumption of an non-observable 'mass' that is supposed to make up for the fact that there is another unobservable force for which we have no explanation except a mathematical model based on no solid evidence.-Gravity exists and they discuss gravity waves. The force of gravity is the weight of the Earth, the distance from the sun, our orbital speed all calculated.