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Old 07-July-2008, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by parejkoj View Post
Ah, no. The need for dark matter is still there. These observations don't change that at all. The "missing matter" in this case was ordinary baryonic matter that should have been there, based on elemental abundances predicted by the big bang + subsequent nucleosynthesis, but wasn't seen until these observations.
This doesn't compute

Isn't the foundation of dark matter/dark energy simply matter/energy that "should be there" but we couldn't see/explain? If we find missing matter isn't that a point for gravity and one less point for that dark stuff?
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