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Originally Posted by Hainesy_2KT
OK, this is my first thread, and it kinda ties in with some of what has been going on with other threads, but presents some new angles as well.
It's for atheists, theists and everyone in between, I'm not looking to push my own clandestine agenda or rubbish anyone's views or start a flaming war, I'm being open and reasonable and genuinely asking people what they think about this stuff, cos it's mighty interesting.
Without further ado...
The current standard model of the cosmos relies on two major and apparently impossible-to-prove theoretical constructs to work: dark matter and dark energy.
As I understand it, both dark matter and dark energy are crucial and very significant forces in our universe, and also necessary for the standard model of the cosmos to fit in more or less perfectly with all the observed and observable evidence. Crucial, significant and filling up more space in the universe than the things that can be seen to exist, even permeating them extensively, yet simultaneously invisible and impossible to prove the existence of, and without which our knowledge of how the universe works gets flushed down the pan.
Atheists: these "dark" forces are obviously very mysterious, do you have any problem accepting their existence, and if science could never prove or even come any closer to proving their existence than it can now, would you start to wonder if the standard model maybe didn't need revising?
Theists and those with a mystical bent: do you have any thoughts relating to your particular beliefs or views with regards to dark matter and dark energy, and their role in the universe?
Open thread, talk away...
It's not really possible to "prove" much of anything. But to the extent that it is possible to establish a claim, it seems very possible to establish the claims of dark matter and dark energy.
It doesn't bother me that much of the universe is made of stuff we don't understand well. I don't think we understand much in general, and that the real fundamental pillars of reality are always going to be inaccessible to us.
We simply have no ****ing clue.