"Unless you hypothesize some novel form of matter, something that's not included in the Standard Model of elementary particles, you cannot explain a whole suite of evidence."
"Dark matter has yet to be directly detected through the experimental attempts we know how to conduct, yet many use this as evidence against its existence."
"The results are in, and what we observe agrees with dark matter while significantly departing from MOND's predictions."
The Universe's observable components cannot fully explain cosmic phenomena without hypothesizing dark matter, which accounts for light element abundances, cosmic microwave background fluctuations, and galaxy correlations. Despite its undetectability, dark matter remains a crucial explanation, unlike MOND, which struggles on larger scales. A new test using the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect shows results aligning with dark matter predictions, further validating its role in cosmology and highlighting the inadequacies of MOND in explaining the Universe's structure and behavior.
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