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Originally Posted by regular.joe
I'm also thinking that if there wasn't already evidence for dark matter/energy then we wouldn't know about the term.
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No evidence of dark matter / dark energy existed. But celestial behavior and the math (ie Hubble Constant, simulations) did not agree. Celestial behavior only agreed with math and simulations if dark energy/matter exists.
Dark matter/energy existed only in a hypothesis. Astronomers now need actual (experimental) evidence to confirm what was only a hypothesis based in math and simulations. That's why the AMS was constructed about 1998.
Same junior high science concepts applied to the Higgs bosom. Until recently, Higgs only existed in a 48 years old hypothesis. To have knowledge required $billions buried a few hundred feet underground. By merging experimental evidence to that hypothesis.