Originally Posted by
Dannon Oneironaut
If we cannot detect dark matter, and we can only infer its existence, that might mean that we have the whole thing wrong. The idea of dark matter seems to be the substantialist fallacy of something that doesn't exist, but is it? Now I have no idea what I am talking about because I am not a scientist, only a philosopher, but I have heard that the existence of dark matter is inferred to explain why some parts of the universe expand more rapidly than others. ? Knowing that the universe is expanding from all points, it is conceivable that we have the geometry slightly wrong. The singularity might be not be the big bang which we also infer from the fact that the universe is expanding. What else is a zero-dimensional singularity which can be the cause of this?