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Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old, study claims (www.earth.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So far this is just a hypothesis, with no empirical evidence to back it up. On the other hand the standard model is supported by lots of evidence. It says this pretty clearly at the bottom of the article.

It's possible this guy is right but he has a long way to go to prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as Carl Sagan would say.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this one of those cases where you would need to make a parallel universe and let it run for billions of years to prove this idea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I think you just need to find, or explain, the dark matter.