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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
My own view of the dark matter hypothesis/observations is that the existence of dark matter/dark energy renders all of our current "theories" about the material universe moot. We're talking about up to 95% of the "known" universe here - when dark matter and dark energy are included. Our current cosmologies are woefully inadequate in relation to what is evidently out there...
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It is certainly possible that fundamental physics is failing, but I think it is important to note that most things in astrophysics which are claimed to be predicted rigorously really aren't. There are a LOT of shaky assumptions involved even in interpreting the data. Also, there are no dark matter or dark energy observations which directly challenge any fundamental concepts. In any case, it will certainly be very interesting to see whatever becomes of these problems.