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What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well that’s a fun hypothesis that should be falsifiable. Why not write a paper with some maths predictions? That is a pretty extraordinary claim, but definitely fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just read up on it a bit, and there's multiple things disproving my theory:

to reconcile our models with our observations, dark matter would have to be primordial, i.e. created shortly after the big bang.
to explain the movements we see, dark matter must be mostly concentrated in a ring far outside of a galaxy. Dyson spheres would probably be concentrated in clusters spreading from the center of a civilization.
Dyson spheres would radiate heat we can detect with infrared telescopes, unless you hand-wave it with "aliens found tech that breaks thermodynamics" and at that point it's the same as saying it's magic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Respect looking into it further. If you’re into to this sort of stuff, you might like YouTube channel Isaac Arthur.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I wish more people were like you on the internet