Consoom Dark Matter
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In physics, we run repeatable experiments billions of times and carefully monitor all experimental events, classify them, and measure them with mathematical precision. IE, when they first announced that they thought they found the Higgs Boson, they were something like 99.99% certain. However, just to be sure, they continued the experiment and collected more data to get a few more 9s before declaring that they had actually found it.
In astronomy and astrophysics, there is no experimentation. You look at the stars, you try to classify them, and then you are left to ponder your belly buttons while coming up with strange ideas about why some stars are different colors than others. That's it. We don't have billions of universes. We can't touch the stars. We can't even get closer to them.
In physics, experimentation is the law. If you can't perform an experiment, it isn't real. If your theory doesn't fit the data, it doesn't matter how "sound" it is, it is wrong, and you are wrong, and you are stupid for ever thinking the theory could possibly be right, and your name is mud for the rest of eternity.
There is no such standard in astrophysics.
Which is why it is nowhere close to anything like physics. And a lot more like astrology.