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138 | Daryl Morey on Analytics, Psychology, and Basketball
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What Is the Best Candidate for Dark Matter?
In the 80s or 90s, your point of view that dark matter is a temporary holding place for a more deep understanding would have been 100% respectable. But I don't think that we as cosmologists have quite conveyed to the public the extent to which that changed when we really started observing the cosmic microwave background in detail. You could make predictions. If dark matter exists, the CMB will look a certain way. If it doesn't exist, it will look another way. It's almost impossible to reproduce that success in a model where you just change gravity without dark. That's what happened with quantum mechanics. Where the theory kept predicting things that kept being true over and over.
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