• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Hell, dark matter isn’t even a hypothesis, it’s purely an observation! In that sense, you’re right that it’s not falsifiable, only interpretable. It is a reality like the temperature. We don’t hypothesize that it is 21C, we observe it. We DIRECTLY OBSERVE gravity that does not come from any known source; that’s “dark matter.” Likewise, we directly observe red shift and other effects of inflation. We call the unknown cause of those observations “dark energy.” Neither are a specific thing that people believe in, they are labels for the effects that we directly observe.

    Casting that through some kind of quasi-religious lens and then attacking it as a crackpot beliefs is BIZARRE behavior.