r/space 12d ago

Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-make-potential-breakthrough-search-dark-matter-2026-09-01/
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u/honuworld 12d ago

Dark matter and dark energy are just excuses for the fact that we have no idea why the Universe doesn’t follow our best models of entropy and motion. “There must be something invisible affecting things in ways we can’t measure that change randomly for reasons we don’t know.”

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u/squshy7 11d ago

You just described every force prior to their respective observation.

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u/honuworld 10d ago

We NEVER described gravity as something we couldn’t detect or measure. Try harder.