Every time I read a lay person proclaim as strong as you have here that “DARK MATTER IS BULLSHIT” i’m reminded that people who don’t study these incredibly complicated things are completely and utterly ignorant of the depths to which scientific studies like this go.

What? Dark matter as a collection of theories is neither ridiculous nor unsupported. It has been indirectly observed in experiment after experiment through its gravitational footprint.

“At least Einstein had the sense to call his unaccountable variables a “fudge factor”,”

There is exactly one free parameter in the Einstein Field Equations, and that’s “c”. The “biggest blunder”, \Lambda, is not a free parameter, it arises in the vacuum stress-energy tensor T_{\mu \nu}^{(vac)} = -{\frac {\Lambda…

Dark Matter:

Are you serious?

They’re observing that things don’t add up and then saying a single, magical solution must exist. In reality it could be multiple unknown factors that are throwing us off and not one single monolithic answer.

You probably should read his comments on the article, where he said they purposefully misquoted him. Also, you shouldnt be getting any news of any kind for any reason from british tabloids.

It means “dark matter” is even more ridiculous and unsupported a theory than before.

If it doesn’t work out the way they expect, they can always tear the thing apart and build something new. That’s the beauty of LIGO.