Maybe It’s Not Dark Matter, But the Fabric of Space Itself

Maybe we’re forcing ourselves to work with the wrong paradigm.

Perhaps the single greatest mysteries in astrophysics are those of dark energy and dark matter, which (according to current estimates) comprise 68% and 27% of our universe today. Baryonic matter — which comprises all matter down to the subatomic level — accounts for only 4.9% of the universe.

Problem is, despite our best efforts, we can’t seem to definitively detect either dark energy or dark matter. Of course that doesn’t mean they aren’t…