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I’m still convinced this idea is wrong, like the aether before it.
Of course, I’m not educated on this at all. And the double slit experiment makes me angry.
Which idea, exactly? Dark Matter is not a theory. It's the name given to the observation that things at large scale don't act in accordance with how general relativity says they should. Multiple theories have come up to attempt to explain this, broadly in two categories: new particles and changing the gravity formula. But scientists really don't have a clear idea of what the right answer is.
They don't even clearly know what is Light.
Yes we do. Photons.
As someone doing my PhD on this topic, there aren't even any theories really competing with dark matter, and dark matter fits what we see in the universe quite well.
That being said, we're still quite in the dark on what dark matter is, but we're pretty sure its there.
I think if the conclusion of the double slit experiment doesn't make you a little upset, you're not really paying attention to the implications.
I think Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment, with all its variations, shows a particular obsession with trying to get a definite answer from the universe.
The universe we inhabit is a goofy, nonsensical place that frustrates our attempts to comprehend it.
The universe was created by Cthulhu.
Blasphemy. We are all wrought by His noodly appendage.
The evidence for an undiscovered particle (or family of particles) as an explanation for the gravitational oddities we see throughout the universe is pretty overwhelming — certainly compared with the evidence for competing theories.
I think the big failure in "selling" the lay public on dark matter has been a failure in explaining exactly why dark matter particles are so hard to detect and classify individually despite being so obvious at cosmic scales.