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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarah Waldock" data-source="post: 369625" data-attributes="member: 64767">You misunderstand. I was not 'justifying dowsing by appealing to something else I find mysterious;' I was pointing out that effects previously not understood can now be explained by science, and therefore that a lack of current explanation does not mean that an explanation does not exist.  If you are a fine enough scientist to truly understand quantum mechanics, you are surely aware that science advances by postulating theorums, which are often pooh-poohed, and are either rebuffed - like phlogisten - or proven - like quantum entanglement.  There are plenty of theories unproven and not universally accepted - dark matter, for example, in astrophysics, where I'm on firmer ground. My personal hypothesis is that the excess gravity is caused by a vast number of primordial black holes which are bloody difficult to detect.  And nobody has a clue about dark energy - it exists, but nobody knows what it is or how it works. It is an effect which cannot be explained - yet. Rather like dowsing.</blockquote>

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