Dark Matter

[gfish]

I'm not a astrophysicist or anything, but am I the only one who finds the whole dark matter thing rather dubious? It just smells of hand-waving kludge to me. Our observations don't match our calculations, so 95% of the universe must be made of invisible matter that only interacts with the rest of us through gravity? The universe is certainly a very odd place, but I just can't get over the feeling that this is the luminiferous aether all over again.

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I haven't read into all the sub-threads here, so this might have been mentioned already. Forgive me if this is a repeat:

http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/EinsteinTheory.asp