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#and even then the consensus is that either A. there's some form of nonluminous matter or B. general relativity is wrong
oflgtfol · 3 years
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i just found a subreddit dedicated to the idea that the entirety of modern physics is like, fake. uhm
#literally everyone is like 'im no astronomer but even i know the math isnt adding up' like#uhm. perhaps thats why the math isnt adding up for you...? LOL#i mean like i get it a lot of modern physics is unintuitive and intangible#but theyre acting like dark matter and dark energy are like. conspiracies#like you people realize that any self respecting 21st century physicist will agree with you that we have no fucking idea what dark matter o#you people realize this is a rich area of research as we're still trying to sort it out?#nobody's acting like its set in stone. no self respecting physicist would say 'dark matter 100% exists it is a known fact. done and dusted'#i wrote a fairly long paper last semester abt the history of dark matter and so like#it took literally fucking decades for the scientific community to finally say 'ok something is up' like it wasnt just a one-off discovery t#and even then the consensus is that either A. there's some form of nonluminous matter or B. general relativity is wrong#general relativity has decades of evidence behind it so yes we're looking at option A as the more likely one#but there IS still research going into option B trying out new alternative theories of gravity#like there isnt some big science conspiracy going on thats crushing dissent against general relativity like these redditors are saying LOL.#brot posts#i normally stick to the super popular subreddits that have like millions of people in them#which seems to have mostly sane ppl so i havent really udnerstood the whole 'reddit sucks' mentality here#but. ok. this sub has only 2000 people and like.. ok i get it now LMAO
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