EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.
Its observed gravitational effects is evidence. Otherwise nobody would have given it a name.
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I mean yeah that’s why it’s called dark matter. Because we know nothing about it except that it has gravity and doesn’t interact much (if at all) with electromagnetic waves.
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Nobody “automatically assumes” anything. Dark matter is the best candidate of possible explanations because it explains observation and still fits the standard model. Even if they find the necessary particles eventually, nobody would call it certain though. Certainty is a unicorn.
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Well, not really. Your first reply to me got downvoted because you setup a strawman - arguing against something that wasn’t even the point.
Your second, the one you claimed said the same as mine, insinuated Dark Matter is just some mathy explanation among many. This doesn’t give it credit. It’s the current no 1 explanation with lots of evidence. Still didn’t get downvoted though.
We don’t even know if the force involved is gravity. In fact we don’t even know if a force is involved at all.