• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    As long as we do not know what Dark Matter or Dark Energy is, any hypothesis is valid. Scientific method is to err above towards the truth.

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      A hypothesis is only valid if it has any basis in reality AND a way to falsify it.

      You can’t just say “it’s cause god got bored” that’s not valid.

      You can say “it’s another dimension leaking, here’s something we can check and if we observe this, then it’s not true.”

      Just throwing out random ideas isn’t a hypothesis, it’s fiction.

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        That is the point, you can’t even check it. You can’t check if Dark Matter is caused by an paralel dimension or not. Ous science is still very basic, we know the phenomens, we even can calculate and use it (eg.gravity lenses), but we don’t know what it is, we don’t even really know what is light.

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      any hypothesis is valid

      I suspect dark matter is actually just the gravitational pull of OPs mother slipping in from a parallel dimension.