Is dark matter’s “nightmare scenario” true?
My intuitive objection against dark matter is that it&#x27;s basically an infinite amount of additional parameters to be fitted to the observations. Galaxy behaves weirdly? Add dark matter! It behaves as expected? It obviously has lost its dark matter! It stands to reason that for every possible observation, a particular DM configuration can be calculated.<p>I fail to see how dark matter could ever be falsified. The best potential replacement would be a theory that&#x27;s simpler, but even then dark matter would probably explain the same observations.<p>The second question is: Is dark matter even matter if it only interacts via gravity? Wouldn&#x27;t it be better named a property of space-time? That is, dark matter is a name for a recursive property of gravity?