Astrophysicist: Photons with mass wouldn’t solve the dark matter puzzle

3-D impression of dark matter via Hubble

He examines the possibilities and decides that photons probably do not really have mass. But even if they did, that wouldn’t help much with the puzzle that we need dark matter but can’t find it:

Even if the photon had mass, and was somehow able to explain the motions of all stars in a galaxy, not just the massive ones, it wouldn’t be able to explain the host of other observations (for example, how could a new electromagnetic force explain the gravitational bending of light around a galaxy cluster? It’s not a rhetorical question – it can’t). In other words, even in a cosmos filled with massive photons, we’d still need dark matter too. Paul M. Sutter, “Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t” at Universe Today

If we can’t even find dark matter, why are some speculating on infinities of infinities of universes?

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