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I can believe in Dark Matter. I can believe in Dark Energy. I cannot believe in both. It’s an epicycle for sure.


Why not? They describe completely different phenomena, two different things we do not understand. There is no reason to think that they might have a single underlying solution, nor is there any theory that points to one.

Science can have more than one mystery, with independent leading solutions. It would be like historians declaring that they could believe in the Sea Peoples or Jack the Ripper but not both.


No, it would be like positing that the Ripper killings were done by 5 different people.




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