The only matter you’ve proven to exist is your own consciousness, so that’s not saying much.
Since you’ve defined matter to be everything that exists, you must believe that whatever is the explanation for dark matter is matter, since it exists.
There are no observations of dark matter and few to none theories on how and why it exists. The only indication that it might exist is that our math doesn’t accurately predict or simulate how celestial bodies are moving, there are other theoretical explanations such as a better understanding of gravity or a larger celestial mechanism just outside of the observable universe supplying an external force.
If you stipulate we must accept Dark Matter as the one true answer then you must also accept any hypothesis regardless of evidence, which is stupid.
The effects of gravity have been observed, the cause itself has not. Prevailing hypothesis is gravitational waves which are being experimented to prove as we speak.
Saying that gravitational waves (which were observed in 2015) are the “cause” of gravity is like saying light is the “cause” of electromagnetism.
Your characterisation of dark matter as “not having been observed” is one of degree and one of terminology. There is evidence that something causes stronger gravitational lensing than can be accounted for by otherwise-observed matter, but this gravitational lensing (alongside other things) is an observation. How then has this phenomenon “not been observed”?
So, dark matter is matter?
Dark matter has never been proven to exist.
The only matter you’ve proven to exist is your own consciousness, so that’s not saying much.
Since you’ve defined matter to be everything that exists, you must believe that whatever is the explanation for dark matter is matter, since it exists.
There are no observations of dark matter and few to none theories on how and why it exists. The only indication that it might exist is that our math doesn’t accurately predict or simulate how celestial bodies are moving, there are other theoretical explanations such as a better understanding of gravity or a larger celestial mechanism just outside of the observable universe supplying an external force.
If you stipulate we must accept Dark Matter as the one true answer then you must also accept any hypothesis regardless of evidence, which is stupid.
TLDR: You’re stupid.
According to what you said, gravity is matter, since gravity exists.
The effects of gravity have been observed, the cause itself has not. Prevailing hypothesis is gravitational waves which are being experimented to prove as we speak.
Saying that gravitational waves (which were observed in 2015) are the “cause” of gravity is like saying light is the “cause” of electromagnetism.
Your characterisation of dark matter as “not having been observed” is one of degree and one of terminology. There is evidence that something causes stronger gravitational lensing than can be accounted for by otherwise-observed matter, but this gravitational lensing (alongside other things) is an observation. How then has this phenomenon “not been observed”?
Oh shit, they did detect them, and dude got a nobel prize for it. How did I miss that, lmao.