Dark Matter Hunt Needs an Endpoint

Scientists should not be
free to speculate forever
when evidence is lacking

 

The hunt for dark matter is getting weird. It’s sounding more like the occult. That’s a bad sign in science; it means that a theory is in heap big trouble.

We’ve been reporting for 2.5 decades about this quest that never succeeds in finding what scientists hope for. Current big bang theories insist dark matter must exist, but every search comes up empty. After numerous expensive, multi-million dollar searches deep underground, a few brave souls are suggesting that the theory is wrong, not nature.

Certain observations (galaxy rotations, galaxy cluster motions) cannot be accounted for by standard Newtonian physics. Everyone admits that much. Dark matter was invented to rescue Newtonian physics from the evidence. The quest was on for the elusive dark matter. Does science get an infinitely long leash for its hunting dog? Does it get infinite time for its pet project? At what point should scientists give up the hunt and stop looking for its current mystical phlogiston, even if theory requires it? When should they turn around and start over on a different path?

We can use ordinary sugar in the search for dark matter (New Scientist, 17 Oct 2025). “Physicists have tried so many different ways to find dark matter, but none has been successful. Now an unexpected contender has entered the arena – ordinary table sugar,” writes Alex Wilkins. Well, this might be a lot cheaper than the current detectors, but call back, Alex, when it works.

Potential Smoking Gun Signature of Supermassive Dark Stars Found in JWST Data (Colgate University, 14 Oct 2025). Science Daily’s copy of this press release has the title, “JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter.” This is weird. Colgate U scientist Cosmin Ilie says,

“Supermassive dark stars are extremely bright, giant, yet puffy clouds made primarily out of hydrogen and helium, which are supported against gravitational collapse by the minute amounts of self-annihilating dark matter inside them,” Ilie said.

But if the dark matter annihilates itself, how on earth are you going to observe it?

This might be the smallest clump of pure dark matter ever found (Space.com, 13 Oct 2025). Oh, so did reporter Keith Cooper or his chosen experts actually observe this pure dark matter? No; but it could be there, he thinks.

Image of dark matter, or dark energy, or both.

A “dark object” detected as an anomalous notch in the arc of a gravitationally warped section of space, could be the smallest clump of pure dark matter yet found.

If so, it would further validate the concept of cold dark matter and will help constrain the properties of dark matter particles as physicists and astronomers continue to hunt for what exactly the invisible substance is made from.

This sounds like ghosts for Halloween a week early.

Information could be a fundamental part of the universe – and may explain dark energy and dark matter  (The Conversation, 14 Sept 2025). Well, yes and no. Intelligent Design theoriest William Dembski wrote a whole book about information as a fundamental part of reality, but he meant instructions from a Mind. That’s not what Florian Neukart at Leiden University is talking about. His “information” is a signature of interactions that a particle has encountered—a kind of memory or recording. But again, no discovery, no certainty, no resolution. It just “may” explain dark energy and dark matter. All theory and no data, or as Texans say, all hat and no cattle.

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These are just the most recent stories about dark matter. Below is a screenshot of additional headlines that have appeared in 2025 about the hunt for dark matter, with no success to this day.

Ditto for Dark Energy

All the faults of the dark matter hunt all apply to the dark energy hunt, if not more so. Recent headlines state, “Does dark energy spawn from black holes?” (Well, go there and find out). Another: “Tying theory to practice when searching for dark energy.” (You mean they have been untied all this time?). And there’s more:

If these mystical, theoretical, occult, dark “concepts” exist in reality, we want to see direct evidence for them. Is that asking too much?

A lesson from this story is that paradigms have tremendous power over the minds of scientists. They would rather search forever than give up a pet concept. Can you think of any other paradigm in science that is making its adherents behave this way? (Easy question; scroll down for ideas.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darwinism.

ABG (Anything But God).

TDS.