Ask Ethan #94: Could dark matter not exist?

“When you propose a new theory to replace an old one — as General Relativity replaced Newton’s laws — your theory has three burdens to meet: It must reproduce all the successes of the previous leading theory. It must successfully explain the new phenomenon (or phenomena) it was designed to explain. And it must make new predictions that can be experimentally or observationally tested, and confirmed or refuted, that are unique to this new theory.”