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I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying. The theory of Dark Matter does not define what dark matter is, other then a gravitational phenomena. If I were to ask 'What is dark matter' or ask anything along the lines of 'can you touch it, see it, smell it, hear it' any answers would be...

Thank you, I think I understand the difference now. Glad I posted ;) Although all the answers here were very good, I think this one from Yahoo was also good and thought I would add it for completion. " I think you are confusing things like the red giant portion of a star's life cycle...

dark matter persists because it is not a theory. It has no actual attributes other then a mathmatical model. What is it? By definition it is 'whatever is causing the unknown gravity'. I do not think that a 'whatever' should be considered a viable scientific theory. Again how can you prove my...

Cooler objects apear red, hot objects appear blue, wouldn't a cooling object be turning redder? Isn't that the definition of redshift? Shifting towards red light? Isn't that how we can tell that certain stars are hotter then others? I could be wrong, but I can't find anything that says...

Umm... What is your evidence that my invisible unicorn theory is wrong?

We do not 'know' dark matter has mass. We 'know' that there is a unexplainable force causing more gravity then the known mass acounts for. Really it is much more likely that our theories on gravity are wrong then an invisible all powerful 'mass'-ive force holding the universe together. That...

Calling it Dark Matter is misleading, it would be better named 'missing matter'. Our current theories of gravity do not hold up with the current mass in the universe. So either our theories of gravity are incorrect, or there is 10 times the amount of matter in the universe then there appears to...

I know about cosmic expansion, but I was just curious, could the observations of redshift be caused because space is cooling, not expanding. From what I understand, as things cool they redshift. If the universe started cooling after the big bang, wouldn't everything we saw from the early...