Dark matter

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Is "dark matter" real?

Christian views

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Secular views

• Why is the Universe’s Expansion Accelerating? - Mo Xinhai, Pure Insight

"Dark matter refers to the unseen matter that exerts enough gravity to keep spinning galaxies from flying apart. By studying the spinning of the galaxy, scientist discovered that in order for those stars in the galaxy to remain on their tracks and not fly apart, the gravity among the stars by itself can not do the job. So scientists proposed that there is another type of matter, “dark matter,” mysterious, invisible, but with much larger mass than the mass of those stars we can observe, that exerts attraction to those stars. The “dark matter” has about 20%, dark energy has about 70% and the ordinary matter we can see has about 10% of the total share of the mass of the universe, according to most scientists."

Secular views - process physics

• Quantum Foam, Gravity, and Gravitational Waves (PDF) - Reginald T. Cahill

"[Conventional physics]... would predict that the Newtonian inverse square law would not be applicable to systems such as spiral galaxies, because of their highly non-spherical distribution of matter. Of course attempts to retain this law, despite its manifest failure, has led to the spurious introduction of the notion of dark matter within spiral galaxies, and also at larger scales."