We know how gravity works locally (for various definitions of local). We can calculate and predict with a lot of accuracy how objects in our immediate vicinity will behave.
All of the evidence is pointing to confirmation of our understanding of the situation.
Then this bullshit star three dozen light years away says "fuck that noise" and does something completely wild. Either we're wrong about all of our math or we missed something.
The "we missed something" crowd is the "dark energy"/"dark matter" people. And by "dark", they just mean "undetectable by current instruments". They believe our math is right. I believe the other crowd is the "Grand Unified Theory" people. That the math itself changes at scale.
And why is "85% of matter is undetectable at distance" not transformative to our assumptions? Do you realize the implications of that? That if 85% of what we should be able to perceive is imperceptible, then the "great silence" may be here sooner than we expect. Maybe that 85% is stuff that is just beyond the speed at which we'd be able to perceive it.
We know how gravity works locally (for various definitions of local). We can calculate and predict with a lot of accuracy how objects in our immediate vicinity will behave.
All of the evidence is pointing to confirmation of our understanding of the situation.
Then this bullshit star three dozen light years away says "fuck that noise" and does something completely wild. Either we're wrong about all of our math or we missed something.
The "we missed something" crowd is the "dark energy"/"dark matter" people. And by "dark", they just mean "undetectable by current instruments". They believe our math is right. I believe the other crowd is the "Grand Unified Theory" people. That the math itself changes at scale.
And why is "85% of matter is undetectable at distance" not transformative to our assumptions? Do you realize the implications of that? That if 85% of what we should be able to perceive is imperceptible, then the "great silence" may be here sooner than we expect. Maybe that 85% is stuff that is just beyond the speed at which we'd be able to perceive it.