EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.

  • theherk
    40·
    10 months ago

    Well that’s a fun hypothesis that should be falsifiable. Why not write a paper with some maths predictions? That is a pretty extraordinary claim, but definitely fascinating.

    • KISSmyOS
      100·
      10 months ago

      I just read up on it a bit, and there’s multiple things disproving my theory:

      • to reconcile our models with our observations, dark matter would have to be primordial, i.e. created shortly after the big bang.
      • to explain the movements we see, dark matter must be mostly concentrated in a ring far outside of a galaxy. Dyson spheres would probably be concentrated in clusters spreading from the center of a civilization.
      • Dyson spheres would radiate heat we can detect with infrared telescopes, unless you hand-wave it with “aliens found tech that breaks thermodynamics” and at that point it’s the same as saying it’s magic.
      • theherk
        60·
        10 months ago

        Respect looking into it further. If you’re into to this sort of stuff, you might like YouTube channel Isaac Arthur.