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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6042481" data-attributes="member: 8835">well duh!Case in point, is it possible, that you have put your own spin on what you've read?You don't like Dark Matter.Right now, Dark Matter is just a placeholder that makes the math work out.  In turn, that math turns out to correctly account and predict more things than not.In another thread, I once challenged Umbran on whether any of this quantum mechanic stuff existed or was applicable to the rest of the world.  Because we can't see or prove a quark or other sub-atomic particle actually exists.  He pointed out that things like computer processors were designed using the math and concepts from quantum mechanics.If the ideas were wrong, then the math wouldn't work and the processor wouldn't process.It's kind of like what we know about basic chemistry and how atoms try to pair up with other atoms to get 8 electrons in their outer orbit (I suppose some chemist will tell me that all changed since high school).  While I can't see an atom or its parts, I kinda gotta assume its accurate when the model tells me what bonds to what and I can take those chemicals and produce the effect the model describes.All without actually seeing the protons, neutrons and electrons to prove they exist.frankly, I'm not sure why you give a monkey's arse so much about this Dark Matter topic.  It is or isn't real.  Don't bloody matter.  the idea of it will change, as scientists futz with it.  I suspect its more of a place-holder concept anyway.  By the time scientists actually discover it, it'll get rebranded as  [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION]ium or something.</blockquote>

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