SPONSORS: - Go to https://shortform.com/toe for a free trial and an exclusive $50 OFF on your annual subscription - As a listener of TOE you can get a special 35% off discount to The Economist and all it has to offer! Visit https://www.economist.com/toeWhat if 85% of the universe's matter isn't missing — it's just that our models were never clean enough to know? Dr. Jenny Wagner proves mathematically that every dark matter map ever made is extrapolation. The data only tells you something local. Everything else is a model assumption wearing the costume of evidence. She then connects this to Einstein's own 1917 warning — that homogeneity and isotropy were always a placeholder, never a truth — and makes the case that cosmology is not in crisis. It's finally ready for the next level of detail.FOLLOW:- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e- Substack: https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/subscribe- Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt- Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs- Crypto: https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/de803625-87d3-4300-ab6d-85d4258834a9- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=XUBHNMFXUX5S4TIMESTAMPS:- - - - - - - - - - - - - - LINKS MENTIONED:- Jenny's Site: https://thegravitygrinch.blogspot.com/- Jenny's Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HBSfYZIAAAAJ- Millennium Sim.: https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/- Cosmic Structures (Math): https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00960- MOND (Milgrom 1983): https://doi.org/10.1086/160167- Bullet Cluster JWST: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21870- Much Ado About No Offset: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11779- Model-Indep. Gravitational Lenses: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01630- Einstein's 1917 Cosmo. Paper: https://www.scribd.com/doc/211769217/Cosmological-Considerations-In-The-General-Theory-of-Relativity- Imre Lakatos: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/- Against Cosmological Principle: https://youtu.be/nASUsWQyemc- Obs. Universe & Cosmo. Principle: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05765- Galaxy Cluster Scaling Anisotropy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13904- Giant Arc on the Sky: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06875- Hassabis AI Lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/12/hassabis-lecture.pdf- Concentric Circles: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3706- No Low-Variance Circles: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1305- Cumrun Vafa: https://youtu.be/kUHOoMX4Bqw- Daniel Dennett: https://youtu.be/bH553zzjQlI- David Kaiser: https://youtu.be/_yebLXsIdwo- Roger Penrose: https://youtu.be/iO03t21xhdk- Barry Loewer & Eddy Chen: https://youtu.be/xZnafO__IZ0- Subir Sarkar: https://youtu.be/epkuoytFJWA- Neil Turok: https://youtu.be/ZUp9x44N3uE- Carlo Rovelli: https://youtu.be/hF4SAketEHY- JB Manchak: https://youtu.be/iGOGxaZZHwE- Jacob Barandes: https://youtu.be/wrUvtqr4wOs- Tim Maudlin: https://youtu.be/fU1bs5o3nss- Michael Levin: https://youtu.be/c8iFtaltX-s- Karl Friston: https://youtu.be/uk4NZorRjCo- Yang-Hui He: https://youtu.be/spIquD_mBFk- Erik Verlinde: https://youtu.be/ilVImMHcr_g- Eva Miranda: https://youtu.be/6XyMepn-AZo- Curt on Determinism: https://youtu.be/tJsghrZQaYUMore links at https://curtjaimungal.substack.comGuests do not pay to appear. #scienceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices