{"id":188674,"date":"2024-05-04T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-is-it-ok-for-people-to-be-saying-that-dark-matter-makes-up-x-amount-of-the-universe-when-we-dont-know-what-it-is"},"modified":"2024-05-04T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T23:25:03","slug":"why-is-it-ok-for-people-to-be-saying-that-dark-matter-makes-up-x-amount-of-the-universe-when-we-dont-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/why-is-it-ok-for-people-to-be-saying-that-dark-matter-makes-up-x-amount-of-the-universe-when-we-dont-know-what-it-is","title":{"rendered":"Why is it ok for people to be saying that dark matter makes up x amount of the universe when we don\u2019t know what it is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-is-it-ok-for-people-to-be-saying-that-dark-matter-makes-up-x-amount-of-the-universe-when-we-dont-know-what-it-is2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It strikes me as contradictory that the scientific community will say that we don\u2019t know what dark matter is, but be happy to state things like \u201cdark matter makes up about 85% of the cosmos\u201d (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-03-astrophysicist-hint-dark.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\">phys.org<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Is there something wrong with the way I\u2019m thinking about this? If <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MOND<\/a> is correct for example, which seems to be a possibility still, wouldn\u2019t this mean that the statement about dark matter making up a certain percentage of the universe be false?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It strikes me as contradictory that the scientific community will say that we don\u2019t know what dark matter is, but be happy to state things like \u201cdark matter makes up about 85% of the cosmos\u201d (source: phys.org) Is there something wrong with the way I\u2019m thinking about this? If MOND is correct for example, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}