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Multiverse (sh.itjust.works)

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

So, bout as much evidence as Dark Matter.

I used to not believe in Dark Matter, but during a recent shroom trip I saw that it existed and that my being was even composed of it. That to an extent all of us are made of equal parts matter and dark matter, and the parts of us that are made of Dark Matter are the reason why we have paranormal experiences, for they're actually quite normal experiences just happening to us on a level where we can't see all the details.

And if I were the Spirit Science guy I'd walk away fully believing THAT.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dark matter is not a thing, it's an observation, a phenomenon that was poorly named. There's so much evidence under the name "[d]ark matter" that we can't discount it as a real phenomenon. We just don't have a strong evidence for a single dark matter theory (theory in the scientific sense of the word, not the colloquial one).

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

Something dark matter like has to exist, because there's no other reasonable way to describe this behavior (shifted center of gravity matching presence of matter not influenced by friction)

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/dark-matter-flies-ahead-of-normal-matter-in-mega-galaxy-cluster-collision

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, but anything that tried to explain the observations would be a dark matter theory, and if that theory involved particles, it'd be a particle theory.

Dark matter isn't a theory, nor is it particles, it's just a body of observations that's poorly named. In that sense, dark matter definitely exists, we just don't know in what shape or form.