Every few months, a novel headline will fly across the world, claiming to revolutionize one or more of our most deeply held scientific ideas. Commonly, it’s portrayed that scientists in this particular field are dogmatic, wedded to old ideas, and close-minded. This is one of the most dangerous pitfalls that scientists — particularly young and inexperienced scientists — can fall into. How does this idea compare to the prevailing theory when applied to the other major successes of the prevailing theory? Although there are ways to reproduce this type of structure without specifically including dark matter, such as by adding a specific type of field, those alternatives either look suspiciously indistinguishable to dark matter or fail to reproduce one of the many other observations in support of dark matter.

Source: Forbes September 29, 2020 06:00 UTC