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'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years

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34 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.394s | source
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rzz3 ◴[19 Apr 25 18:02 UTC] No.43738153[source]▶
I’ve always felt like (as neither a mathematician nor a physicist) that “dark matter” is simply just something that suddenly makes a math problem work to model the universe-—and that in reality, that math problem just doesn’t work.

Is my theory even _possible_ here, or am I missing something. Really fundamental?

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1. tekla ◴[19 Apr 25 18:10 UTC] No.43738215[source]▶
99% of the evidence points to dark matter being a real thing. And yes, many many phds have thought of the "what if we're just completely wrong" aspect. It's not interesting
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2. naasking ◴[19 Apr 25 20:51 UTC] No.43739372[source]▶
> 99% of the evidence points to dark matter being a real thing

If you mean particle dark matter, that's an exaggeration:

From Galactic Bars to the Hubble Tension: Weighing Up the Astrophysical Evidence for Milgromian Gravity, https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/7/1331