Far out cosmology: Any explanation for dark matter? (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, September 06, 2016, 15:13 (2999 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: As always, thank you for your integrity in posting articles which often seem to run counter to your own arguments. Here we have physicists acknowledging that the Standard Model is unable to account for gravity and 85% of the mass in the cosmos. 15% apparently = "almost everything", and by definition we have no idea what or how many unknown particles exist. The current “pattern”, which earlier you said “strongly suggests there is a mind behind it”, may therefore be “woefully amiss”. -DAVID: Once more, the article accepts that the Higgs discovery completed an anticipated pattern. You are railing about what we don't know beyond the pattern. Gravity never fit the pattern. It is one of the existing puzzles outside of it. A pattern which allows predictions suggest it was planned. And minds plan.-We have agreed that the Higgs completed a segment of a pattern. However, it is clear that the next segment of the pattern entailed the prediction of WIMPS, and since the prediction has so far failed to come true, the researchers tell us “they may not exist, which would mean that something is woefully amiss in the underpinnings of how we try to make sense of the universe." If the Standard Model is our current means of making sense of the universe, it may be that the Standard Model is woefully amiss - but as I keep saying that will not stop you from claiming that any pattern is planned, even if a whole raft of unpredicted particles should emerge from the quest for dark matter.
 
As for fulfilled predictions suggesting that the pattern was planned, there are weather patterns which allow meteorologists to make predictions, but owing to the fact that these patterns are as incomplete as the Standard Model, the predictions are often “woefully amiss”. I doubt if even you would claim that when weather forecasts are right, they strongly suggest a planning mind. It may even be that the complete pattern of the universe is as changeable as that of the weather, with both predictable and unpredictable elements.