Terrence Howard on physics: what the evidence says · JRE #2152
SUBJECT: PHYSICS
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They've been going in the wrong direction. 96% of physics is unknown matter that they've had to make up to account for it.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
Howard's figure appears to garble a real cosmological estimate: standard cosmological models (based on Planck satellite CMB data and other observations) hold that ordinary (baryonic) matter accounts for only about 5% of the universe's total mass-energy content, with dark matter making up about 27% and dark energy about 68%, together summing to roughly 95%, not "96% of physics." The claim also mischaracterizes dark matter and dark energy as concepts "made up" to paper over a mistake; in mainstream physics they are inferred from multiple independent lines of evidence, including galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing, and the cosmic microwave background, and remain active, well-funded areas of research rather than an ad hoc fix. No peer-reviewed source describes dark matter or dark energy as 96% of "unknown physics," and none characterizes the standard model or cosmological consensus as fabricated. The claim conflates a legitimate composition estimate of the universe with an unsupported accusation of scientific fraud.