SSM Plebiscite

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It has nothing to do with being lazy. My work ethic is fine, and my comprehension skills are fine. Read those articles yourself. All the PhD's and all the equations in the world won't alter the fact that after decades and decades, neither dark matter nor dark energy have been directly detected. The calculations are not theories. They are simply mathematical documentation of observed phenomena. Science takes that data and explains it in terms of current theories of gravitation, which has fallen short. Why not try something else ?

I have spent days looking at this, and the thing that I find especially galling is the arrogance and inevitability of it all. It doesn't matter whether it's a forum know-it-all, an undergrad student, Dawkins, Brian Cox or anyone else, any uncertainty or lack of information is almost always qualified with a "yet." "We don't have the answers yet." "We don't understand dark matter or energy yet", etc. There is rarely any doubt or humility expressed, never any concession to the very reasonable possibility that we have reached the limits of what we can measure. Never any attempt to state things simply and honestly. It's always science as the great white hope, the great solver of the universe's secrets. It's always presented as simply a matter of more time, more money etc.

If you had read the articles you should understand they are not trying for direct detections, all the experiments are indirect detection, but with careful design they continually narrow the range of whatever they detect might be.

In the world as we know it, at our human scale and perception within our current band of knowledge, direct detection is not possible but that doesn't mean you won't notice the influence or effects.

Like the wind blowing trillions of atmospheric particles through whatever is left of your hair, it gives you no information of what they are but you can indirectly detect their presence.