Ma’am, I wouldn’t dream of questioning a moderator’s decision. I was being puckishly rhetorical… cheeky. There are at least three first class minds here, mine not among them, being wasted with something else that still doesn’t quite pass the Turing Test. I congratulate the programmer nonetheless.
Put it this way. So far science has shown no way of validating dark matter other than it helps to make their theory’s equations balance without actually having to find out why they were wrong in the first place.
That simply isn’t true.
With the Bullet cluster they were able to use distortion of background galaxies to detect dark matter separately from luminous matter, and it had nothing to do with balancing out equations.
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NASA considers it possible, but no smoking gun proof of dark matter.
What’s the matter with the Bullet Cluster? This massive cluster of galaxies [1E 0657-558] creates gravitational lens distortions of background galaxies in a way that has been interpreted as strong evidence for the leading theory: that dark matter exists within. Different recent analyses, though, indicate that a less popular alternative – modifying gravity-- could explain cluster dynamics without dark matter, and provide a more likely progenitor scenario as well. Currently, the two scientific hypotheses are competing to explain the observations: it’s invisible matter versus amended gravity.
This is what you said before:
“So far science has shown no way of validating dark matter other than it helps to make their theory’s equations balance without actually having to find out why they were wrong in the first place.”
That’s false, as the data from the Bullet cluster shows. Ironically, you are trying to refute the evidence from the Bullet cluster by advocating for the rebalancing of equations.
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It looks like you are conflating dark matter and dark energy. Learning the difference between those would be a good start, along with you trying really hard to understand why cosmologists reluctantly accepted dark matter over a period of several decades. Here is a good history of dark matter:
As far as the Oort cloud goes, starting with really trying to understand what we know about comet reservoirs and how we know what we know would be a good place to start. I can send a PDF of this review article if you (or others) are interested of just about everything we had figured out before 2015:
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