dark matter is 100% proven to exist, we just dont know what the fuck it is.

dark matter and "physicalism" have nothing to do with each other. this thread is pointless

This post was edited by khemist on Jun 20 2013 09:32pm

and what proof is that? until we detect it, we havnt proven anything.
the higgs boson was predicted for decades and wasnt proven to exist until recently.
we have observed previously unexplainable gravitational effects and predict dark matter as the cause. we have collected a fair amount of supporting evidence for its existence but (to my knowledge) have failed for decades to detect it

This post was edited by Kamikizzle on Jun 20 2013 10:35pm

its detected from the gravitational lensing around galaxies.

its there, but we dont know what it is. those are two very different things

This post was edited by khemist on Jun 20 2013 11:13pm

the only thing we can assert from the observation is that there is gravitational lensing that is possibly anomalous

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gravitational lensing and rotational speeds of dwarf galaxy observations do not match our theories of predicted mass of galaxies. dark matter is a proposed solution to this miss-match, but it has never been detected.
just because the theorized dark matter solves these problems does not mean it actually exists.

youre thinking about it backwards: these observations do not explain dark matter (ie they are not evidence of dark matter); dark matter explains these observations

My point is that we observe gravitational lensing and can detect that galaxies have much more mass than theoretically predicted. That extra mass is termed dark matter. I didnt say it was a particle or a field or whatever, but something is obviously causing galaxies (and the entire universe) to be much more massive than predicted.

Back to the OP, I still dont see the connection between physicalism and dark matter.

Your argument is (essentially) does a tables legs support the table itself?