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Gravity can exist without mass, dark matter could be myth: Study (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

To be fair dark matter is a purely mathematical construct to explain the presence of gravity without (visible) mass. Certainly dark matter has more credibility than this new idea but hypothetical mathematical constructs make up a good chunk of physics.