Physicists often talk of dark matter and dark energy as mysterious “stuff” filling the cosmos. This language is misleading. What we label “dark matter” or “dark energy” is a placeholder for relational effects we cannot yet map, not necessarily a new type of particle or substance. Treating them as things encourages substance-based thinking: the universe as a container with hidden contents. Relationally, these phenomena signal patterns of potential and constraint in the cosmic system, not undetected objects floating in a Newtonian void.
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