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> And its tough to imagine the consequences of something you are absolutely not able to detect, you could be flying towards with 250 km/s. Its kind of scary- imagine you hit something like that and it causes earth quakes or a shake up of the solar system.

If it was capable of doing this, we would observe it doing the same to light on its way toward us - gravitational lensing in other words. If your scenario was possible, we would've definitely made observations to that extent, but we haven't.

For what it's worth - neutrinos fit your description right here. There are a trillion of them passing through your hand every second, essentially without interacting at all (from https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/).

> but instead of stepping back, a thousand angles are tried to solve the problem in the narrow scope.

What makes you think nobody has stepped back? Tons of people have stepped back and proposed lots and lots of alternatives. Dark matter is the only one that can explain all the phenomena mentioned in the article. It is the result of a lot of stepping back and failing even more in the other directions.




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