http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/culture/more-things-in-heaven-and-earth-horatio/ European Opinion Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:35:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/culture/more-things-in-heaven-and-earth-horatio/#comment-7907 Walt Pohl Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:17:35 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/wordpress/?p=1248#comment-7907 Dark matter is plausible as an explanation simply because if you suppose that dark matter exists, then you can measure where the dark matter must be on the basis of its gravitational force. If dark matter didn't exist, you would expect that following this method would give you nonsense (the Michaelson-Morley experiment is the obvious historical analogy). Since it doesn't, it would be strange if general relativity turned out to be wrong in such a way that made it look like there were particles in specific locations that turned out not to exist. Dark matter is plausible as an explanation simply because if you suppose that dark matter exists, then you can measure where the dark matter must be on the basis of its gravitational force. If dark matter didn’t exist, you would expect that following this method would give you nonsense (the Michaelson-Morley experiment is the obvious historical analogy). Since it doesn’t, it would be strange if general relativity turned out to be wrong in such a way that made it look like there were particles in specific locations that turned out not to exist.

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