>>13932817>so uh, this beta decay isn't obeying our theories on conservation of energy, so there must be a type of matter we can't directy observe with our current technology - lets call it a neutrino. Seriously though, assuming your theory is right but some invisble shit is causing your observation to be off has in the past produced some very useful results - the neutrinos above, or how Neptune was discovered. Granted, sometimes you do need a better theory to more closely model reality (see the efforts in the late 1800s to find another planet to explain oddities in Mercury's orbit, only for relativity to explain it). After the galactic rotational curve issued was discovered, plenty of modified gravity theories have been put forth and considered, but in the face of later discoveries have been found wanting; for example dark matter theory predicts we would find areas where gravitantional lensing doesnt match the visible matter, (and said areas have been found) while trying to get any of the modified gravity theories to explain that kind of thing hasnt worked out so far.
