Cosmology: Dark matter proven? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, July 08, 2012, 02:16 (4500 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.-I'm going to be posting in greater depth about the interplay between math and physics soon, but in the discussion here, if Einstein's theory of gravitation were wrong, gravitational lensing wouldn't work. The only hole that exists in the totality of physics in regards to gravity is a quantum description of gravity--which the Higgs gets us a giant step closer to. As David explained,gravity is measured perfectly fine, and we can perfectly predict what gravity around an object should be when given its mass. -The fact that gravity bends light as Einstein predicted is confirmation of the curved space-time explanation in physics. It is not hogwash.

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