Don Lincoln: uncertainty

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…Just imagine. Or you have to come up with that really cool theoretical idea that everybody’s overlooked, which is another possibility. And there are people who are really, really religiously hating dark matter, largely because we’ve looked so hard for so many years and the experiments in today’s world are a million times more sensitive than when I was a starting student- … and they still haven’t seen anything. And that’s why people really hate dark matter. I mean, some of them- … because they think we should have seen it by now, but- … you know, I don’t know. I mean, I’m a sucker for direct observation. Not– Indirect is obviously also really great, but direct, just imagine pointing your telescope in a certain direction and because of some artifact of cosmology being able to directly detect a giant amount of a thing that you could say is dark matter.…

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