Quantum Leap

[regular.joe]

I'm taking bets to see if there is a thread that tw doesn't talk about George Jr.

I'm also thinking that if there wasn't already evidence for dark matter/energy then we wouldn't know about the term. Like many things in the universe we see evidence for, but have no freaking idea what it is or the underlying mechanism for how it works. Much like George Jr's brain.

[tw]

Originally Posted by regular.joe

I'm also thinking that if there wasn't already evidence for dark matter/energy then we wouldn't know about the term.

No evidence of dark matter / dark energy existed. But celestial behavior and the math (ie Hubble Constant, simulations) did not agree. Celestial behavior only agreed with math and simulations if dark energy/matter exists.

Dark matter/energy existed only in a hypothesis. Astronomers now need actual (experimental) evidence to confirm what was only a hypothesis based in math and simulations. That's why the AMS was constructed about 1998.

Same junior high science concepts applied to the Higgs bosom. Until recently, Higgs only existed in a 48 years old hypothesis. To have knowledge required $billions buried a few hundred feet underground. By merging experimental evidence to that hypothesis.