Who said anything about exotic matter?
About half the papers on Arxiv. Most of them rely on hypothetical properties of hypothetical SUSY particles.
Astronomers may posit that dark matter is exotic, but, aside from public misunderstanding, no one claims that it actually is exotic. All we know is that it's there, and that it's dark.
It's there, but what makes it "dark"? Our technology is simply primate. So what? We can't even count stars in a distant galaxy, we "estimate" them. Evidently galaxies are at least twice as bright as we first thought and contain four times as many stars as we once thought.
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We simply blew our mass estimation techniques and it's only "dark" to us because our technology is so limited. There's no evidence any of that missing mass is related to SUSY theory.
Nonetheless, it remains a possibility. In the 17[sup]th[/sup] century, there was no need for quantum theory, either.
Anything and everything is "possible". Empirical physics is about what is physically demonstrated to exist. What consumer product runs on DE, inflation, 'expanding space', or SUSY theory?
Primitive compared to whom?
Primitive in terms of distance, not "whom". While our technologies are "better than" they've been in the past, we can't even actually count individual stars in a distant galaxy, let alone see planets.
But in any case, we go where the evidence leads us. If future experiments prove that our current observations are flawed, then so be it.
You can't even cite a single lab experiment where 'dark energy' or inflation moved a single atom. If you can't cause a couple of atoms to expand, what makes you think it's going to make a whole universe go "bang"? You're theory is flawed IMO because it was never empirically verified and it is based up on three forms of metaphysics, most of which cannot ever be tested. Something like 72% of the universe is made of of "dark energy" according to Lambda-CDM theory but not one astronomer on Earth can tell us where it comes from.
But don't you think it's a little presumptuous to dismiss current data just because a) you don't like the conclusions, and b) there is a margin of error?
I don't actually dismiss the "data', just the interpretation of that data. It's certainly possible the universe is expanding and accelerating, but there is no possibility that "faerie energy" had anything to do with either of these observations. A label and two bit math formula is not an empirical substitute for a real test with real control mechanisms. If DE can't cause two atoms to expand in a lab, I have no confidence it's going to accelerate a whole universe of atoms.
A minute ago you said it was experimental error. Now you're saying it's a slip in the mathematics. Which?
Hmm? There are no experiments with actual control mechanisms that demonstrate the existence of inflation, de or dm.
We know the mass is there, how much is there, and where it is.
OK.
We know that light can travel through it.
Ok.
We know that light isn't emitted from it.
Ok.
What did I assume, exactly?
Every single mass estimation technique related to counting stars and such in a galaxy are littered with "assumptions" that hare since been shown to be false. Read the two articles I just cited.
FYI, all I know about you is what you've listed for yourself here. There's conflict between your material. It's not my fault.
There is absolutely no evidence for God (prove me wrong), yet there is evidence for dark matter.
Please define exactly what you are using as a standard for providing evidence of "dark energy", "inflation" and "dark matter" and I'll be happy to provide you with plenty of evidence of God.
No one puts their faith in either: we follow the evidence and the logic.
No evidence lead us to "dark energy" or "inflation". Inflation is something Guth created in his personal imagination. It fails the "Dark flow" test too.
It's amusing that you chastise us for putting our 'faith' in a scientific theory, yet you yourself are Christian! Hypocrisy is an ugly colour, Michael.
Not all. I recognize my "Christian faith" as an act of faith on my part. I don't try to teach it in school as "science". I don't stuff metaphysics down your child's throat in school. The only hypocrisy is claiming that an act of faith in dark energy and inflation and dark matter is a form of "science' and claiming there is no evidence of God.
IMO, God is the universe. There is plenty of evidence that the universe exists. Whether or not you will accept the evidence of God is up to you of course, but there is certainly evidence of God's existence to be found in nature, starting with the effect God has on human beings past present and future.
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