SCIENCE

FriendlyFire wrote:

[…] I’d be extremely surprised to see a fundamental change to the laws of physics we have defined some time in the future. Refining? Yes. Redefining? No.

That’s a very nice of putting it, FF! I can subscribe to that too.

(But, like I said in my reply to Bullwinkle, I won’t be very surprised if Dark Energy would turn out to be a phenomenon being explained by a refinement in the Law of Gravity. (For what it’s worth - which isn’t much, as I’m not a scientist and not even very well educated in math… And ‘gut-feelings’ are of little use in the more advanced areas of science, which often deal with counter-intuitive phenomenons.))

There are many theories that actually explain the effects of dark matter and dark energy without using either of them. Google for “Horava theory of gravity” for an example I’ve read about a few years ago

It’s but one of many, but it goes to show there are always many ways to tackle an issue. Whether we end up finding out dark matter and energy to be true is something we won’t know for some time, but it’s always good for things we are still uncertain about to keep your mind open. In the case of the speed of light and neutrinos and relativity in general, we have just about no uncertainty, which is why scientists are so sceptical.