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Why does anyone take dark matter seriously?
There are better models out there,

*cough* http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/ *cough*

and dark matter is CLEARLY a kludge!

Why do people hang onto insanity? (also, string theory? WTF is with that shit?)

Has science gone over to the dark matter side (ie, religion and magic and unicorns)?

EDIT: from a conversation i had with mpc755


Okay, for a second, forget you think I'm a dick/crazy/stupid/whatever,, and take an unbiased look at this:


Curved space time and GR have problems (this is why they came up with dark matter as well as all the fringe theories like MOND, QI, etc):
But if space ISN'T curved, then something ELSE would have to 'appear' to replace it.
QI acts LIKE gravity, except there is a PUSH instead of a pull.

Bear with the dick for another moment.

A planet blocks Unruh waves from one direction and objects are pushed towards the planet by the waves coming from all the other directions.
A beam of light approaches a star and the 'waves' are blocked from hitting the light by the star: the waves from all other directions push it towards the star.
If the light is approaching the star at an angle, as it is passing by the star, the waves that are not blocked push it towards the star JUST as if space was curved.


A planet orbits a sun because it TRIES to follow a straight course but the Unruh waves push on it from all directions EXCEPT where the sun blocks them: it is pushed on from all other directions except the blocked direction and so is pushed TOWARDS the blocked direction!

To me, this is fascinating.
Space not being curved, but matter acting LIKE it is curved without the problems brought in by the curving of space.

And if time does not exist as a part of space/time (Like Julian Barbour, Mach and Einstein suggests (expanding the work of Einstein (AND Mach) BEFORE he decided the math would be too hard and changed to time being a part of space), then there are no worries about the twin paradox and time travel.

To me, the problems introduced by space-time and dark matter are nullified by something like QI.

There are SO many problems solved just by thinking outside the box that I CAN'T HELP but go outside the box and look around: if QI can be proved, it solves SO MANY PROBLEMS.
Am I married to QI? Far more than dark matter, but I am always looking outside that box: give me something BETTER than dark matter or QI and I will take a look at it.
Dark matter, though: I looked at it and it just seems like a fake. A too easy fix.
I need better...we all need better.

 

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