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In the realm of physics; however, before you declare that dark matter, indeed, exists - I'd like to see a sample of it in a test tube...it is not enough that its existence is SORELY NEEDED to explain away problems with established theory.

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Now you're being inconsistent (not that it really suprises me). You want to see a bit of dark matter in a test tube, yet you insist that those "me" particles are real and offer none in that test tube for us to see.

No rational person would change their standard of evidence just because it is convenient.

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Originally posted by Dave W.

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Not that it was CREATED, but that it was USED to try to explain BB.

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Yeah, just like that pesky Relativity was used to explain inconsistencies with Newtonian mechanics.

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I have a MAJOR problem with any equation that produces an imaginary number. Though emperically it seems to work, I would strongly suspect it is incomplete...unfortunately, I haven't used my higher math in decades and am lucky if I can add change in my head.

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How dare physicists come up with theories which better match observation than prior theories!

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Dark matter was actually CREATED by the Great Pumpkin for the Feast of Grenthian.

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Cite?

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In metaphysics WECIB (what else could it be) is a valid ploy. I, myself, as a mad metaphysicist use it ad nauseum. Often ... Occasionally Rarely it proves out. In the realm of physics; however, before you declare that dark matter, indeed, exists - I'd like to see a sample of it in a test tube...it is not enough that its existence is SORELY NEEDED to explain away problems with established theory.

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Physicists announced Thursday that they now have the smoking gun that shows the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second.

The discovery -- which involves an analysis of variations in the brightness of microwave radiation -- is the first direct evidence to support the two-decade-old theory that the universe went through what is called inflation.

It also helps explain how matter eventually clumped together into planets, stars and galaxies in a universe that began as a remarkably smooth, super-hot soup.

"It's giving us our first clues about how inflation took place," said Michael Turner, assistant director for mathematics and physical sciences at the National Science Foundation. "This is absolutely amazing."

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