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What possible, fundamental, misunderstanding of the nature of the universe could make current academics look like flat earthers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I once heard that dark matter is just the consequence of using approximations and then having equations not balance out further down the line. So we inject dark matter in there so that the math maths all right.

[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Thats literally how it started, yes.

Then scientists realized that their math hack might actually hold some weight.