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Please read where the "dark matter" term came from. It's not a faerie dust that facilitates magic use. It's just a hypothetical matter in the universe that we can't observe, because for some yet-unknown reason it doesn't emit light. There's no reason it can't be just regular matter.


Not only does it not emit light, it does not interact with electromagnetic waves in any way.


And it doesn't obscure light - doesn't leave a shadow. No, its not regular matter at all. Its definitely something strange.


Neutrinos don't interect with EM either, so just being "dark" is not outside of well established physics. The only thing strange about "dark matter" is not that it is dark (eg, not interacting with the electromagnetic force), but that none of the dark particles we already know about can explain the effects that we attribute to dark matter.


If it is something at all and not only a flaw in our theories.


Calling it "inexplicable gravity thing that makes galaxies work" does not exude confidence.




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