Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter
The edge of human understanding of the universe is a vague and scary place. When we dug deep below the atom level everything we took for granted fell apart. We had to invent an entirely new model of physics to make sense of our observations, which is complex and counter-intuitive (quantum mechanics)<p>Would it be reasonable to assume that the same applies at the opposite end of the spectrum: from the sub-atomic to the super-galactical?  Could the rules at such scales necessitate a new form of physics that we have yet to derive because of the difficulty of observation?<p>I ask this because &quot;dark matter&quot; and &quot;dark energy&quot; always make me think of past primitive attempts to align unexpected data to existing models of understanding. Is it possible that they are just &quot;echoes&quot; or &quot;shadows&quot; of concepts that exceed the very nature of &quot;matter&quot; and &quot;energy&quot;?