Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Theory of Gravity Is a Theory That Works Well in the Solar System
We only observe the effects of dark matter through gravity. So far en. We're doing experiments to try to detect it otherwise. But at the level of what we've understood so far, its only through their gravitational effect. And that's a very, a humbling thing to think about, because it means that we have this phenomenon, and we infer which which disagrees with what we expect,. Given our theory of gravity, what we would expect to happen. And so we infer missing matter. From that it mean that we have to have edible faith in the theory of gravity - i onshine theory of gravity. Of course, there are examples in history of thisa well, i should say
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