I’m pretty sure that dark matter/energy is just this generation’s aether.

Ummm… Only thing we’re sure of is that those gravitational effects exist. Dark matter and dark energy are theorized to explain the real gravitational effects that we don’t understand. We don’t “know of their existence,” there are other theories to explain the gravitational effects.

They refuse

Miss me with that light shit

Basically the force

At this point there’s more evidence for psychic powers than Dark Matter, that is not praise for Parapsychology but rather condemnation of “Bro, it’s real! Source: Trust me!” being Dark Matter’s only evidence.

is this a ‘your mom’ joke?

The thing is a bit more complex.

We have a theory of the big bang,which could not be disproven yet.

This theory would expect that our current universe would slow down in expansion.

However our observations show that expansion is accelerating.

Introduce dark energy. It is supposed the mystical force which expands the universe.

(not sure if I get the following right) This force acts on every atom. But it is weak on its own, even the weak gravitational force is stronger. However over great distance the force is bigger than the gravitation.

Then there is dark mater. Our visible universe was made into a simulation where they use all the physics we know of to simulate the currently visible situation. However the simulation did not behave like what we see. It only works when they added a lot of matter. But matter that you can’t see? “dark matter”

Then they formed new theories that both dark matter and energy needed to exist or our universe wouldn’t look like it looks today.

Now I am no scientists but it is possible that we are completely wrong here.