Talk:Dark energy/Comments

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The deficits in the dark matter theory suggestion of this article are as follows:

1. No published experimental evidence of the properties or structure is presented for dark matter. Rather, all concepts of dark matter are inferred from the lack of evidence in other theories, such as the missing matter for a flat, critical density, or to explain an apparent acceleration of the universe.

2. Dark matter properties should be predictable from current inflationary models but the article states no prediction or experimental evidence based on these models.

3. The suggestion that dark matter should exist to make up for "missing" matter that is predicted by a theory is a circular argument. The lack of evidence to support a theory should not be rationalized by presenting another theory which in itself is pure speculation.

4. The search for dark matter goes back several decades and with the current lack of experimental evidence for it's existence, theories that predict a required mass of the universe (which appears to be missing based on observation) should be re-examined.