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Dec 18, 2015 at 16:02	comment	added	Peter R		Standard model has other problems too like dealing with gravity. The assumption is being made that there must be some unseen mass without any independent verification. If no independent verification can be done, would dark matter still be accepted as a viable explanation?
Dec 18, 2015 at 10:10	comment	added	Nikey Mike		Indeed, we measure dark matter indirectly. However, the actual standard model has some problems, one of them is CP problem and the axions were introduced to solve this problem. Axions might count for a cold(non-relativistic) dark matter particles. link
Dec 17, 2015 at 20:33	comment	added	Peter R		What you are saying is that we need an eplanation to account for gravitational anomalies and that dark matter is a way to explain the anomaly. And the way we measure dark matter is by th amount of the anomly. Kinda circular reasoning, no?
Dec 17, 2015 at 17:47	history	answered	Nikey Mike	CC BY-SA 3.0