what if you don't see it? your own precious science has proven 99% of what is 'here' is dark matter and not even perceptable by vision or anything else other than math equations. To think you've studied 1% of what is IS and think you've nailed down all it's properties is magical thinking by definition
It's kind of exactly to my original point, I think, that this thread has so quickly gone so far off topic, but what the heck, I'll chase the rabbit down the hole for a bit.
Dark matter is currently theorized to only be about 85%, but that's a quibble. You are wrong, however. It is perceptible, albeit indirectly, which is how we know it exists. That's based on a huge body of extremely careful and rigorous deductions, built on direct observational evidence and logic, which has been tested by literally thousands of people whose life's work is to think about, test, and study such things, and think about whether they got anything wrong, and fix it. That's the "math equations" part I suppose. Your comment implies that you feel that anything that is described by an equation has some kind of taint to it and in some way inhabits a lesser order of reality--we wouldn't even be having this conversation without the math equations that enabled the creation of the internet, computers, and so much more, so don't dismiss them so lightly.
You are also wrong in assuming, as you seem to, that anyone thinks we know everything. Of course we don't. This gets back to my earlier comment though--just because there exist
some things that we do not know, does not mean that we can't know
anything with certainty. The name "dark matter" is a placeholder because while we can tell that it does exist, and describe its qualities somewhat, we still can't see it directly. But those gaps in our knowledge doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or that we can't know anything about it at all.
This line of discussion I think touches on exactly what I was driving at when I opened the thread. Burn-in adherents very quickly dive for high-concept epistemological cover when their views are challenged, or when they are asked to provide actual evidence that supports their theories.
