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  1. Something about dark matter makes me feel dubious, similar to disproven Newtonian aether, feels like something else going on we donโ€™t understand yet and dark matter like aether was just plugged in to tie things up neatly.

  2. Photons aren't actually particles. It's just light waves emitted by atoms, propagating through space as a Gausian wave packet at (t)ime. As the wave is absorbed by the EM field of existing target particles, it gives the false impression of a particle as the existing target particle is measured as an increase in voltage. But that does not indicate a particle was absorbed. It merely indicates that the EM field of the target particle was excited. The photon "particle" doesn't exist.

    So yea, the basis for the standard model is wrong. And that's probably why you're running into problems with dark energy and such as we observe the wave packet stretched to infinity through space. The photon needs re-quantification.

  3. So the question I have is if Dark Matter is 75%+ of the universe, why can't we detect it's local effects? So far we only know of it's existence because galaxies we observe would fly apart if only contained matter we know about.

  4. The three electron like particles is how old? A few decades? What gives them credence or even validity? The 'Oh look, we discovered Higgs boson yet again and thus…?' Seriously? I have a hypothesis that the smallest particle is an electron where ALL particles are divisible by evenly. None of this "goes through us" baloney without a rational explanation!?! BTW the three electron like particles are most likely angular rotation on the Cartesian planes..

  5. For clarity, 6 + 3 = 9 quarks and electron
    9 + 3 = 12 adding neutrinos
    12 + 3 = 15 including financial force particles
    (He specifically did not count gravity)
    15 + 1 = 16 with the Higgs

    So is it about 17 or did I miscount?

  6. Threes ….
    What if each of these has three "types" with the undiscovered ones being contributors to the "Dark" energy that we haven't figured out how to measure yet ?
    Having three in each makes sense in a three dimensional universe. (Ignoring the "Time" aspect for this discussion.)
    Three dimensions BECAUSE of three "types" of rudimentory particles.

  7. Well, because gravity is not a force. It's what we call the reaction of space-time pushing back towards its normal state. Like wind, simply a reaction of different forces.
    And we do know the particles are vibrations in/from the quantum field that they belong to, which is all part of the space-time mesh.

  8. Can we start grow an environment connection similar to the gaia theory?
    Gravity, density, cell duplication, decoherence arrow theory, dark matter/ether or what you will next come up with?
    Fudge๐Ÿ˜‚ there's no mysteries but individual truths within the 2/3 of reality.

    Standard model 2/3, the 3e individual, creating a diversity instead of that robotic one truth.

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