Tom_McCabe comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe 27 August 2007 05:07:57AM 0 points [-]

"Black holes, dark matter and dark energy seem to pretty much fit this description. They are, after all, inventions tacked on to calculations, in order to make theory and calculation fit observations."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_cluster for dark matter.