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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

As I understand it, the "matter" part is a hold over from physicists trying to fix their faulty calculations.

Looking for "matter" that only interacts with gravity is a bit like looking for the perfectly smooth frictionless plane. I mean, somethings gotta account for the sums being off, but the real world explanation is anybody's guess.