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I read this article stating that I have access to the original article but I didn't understand how they measured everything and if this new finding would reduce the need of dark matter. Searching "dark matter" in the article I found:

It is my mistake, oil was actually just over$100/barrel but the point remains that oil companies are charging for more now with a greatly reduced price of crude. Except there is one major difference. AFAIK no significant portion of the US population supports this or your other example, whereas we supposedly support capitalism And I would argue that capitalism IS antisocial.

I think you are comparing apples and oranges. In this case, inflation-adjusted prices and nominal prices. When crude hit $150 (Dec ‘79) that’s in adjusted dollars; the nominal price was $38 https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-adjusted-prices/historical-oil-prices-chart/ The inflation adjusted price of gas then was north of $3.50. I’m guessing you’re citing the nominal price https://zfacts.com/gas-price-history-graph Leaded gas was sold back then, and was cheaper than unleaded.

Remember this "Ton 618" at 40 BILLION solar masses. I just learned that the theoretical upper limit for SBH mass is about 270 BILLION solar masses! But probably not much bigger than 50 BILLION solar masses. "The limit is only 5×1010 M☉ for black holes with typical properties, but can reach 2.7×1011 M☉ at maximal prograde spin (a = 1).[7][8][9][10] List of most massive black holes - Wikipedia

This thought came to me while I was reading. If the universe is expanding, then it needs to expand outwards into something. But this means that there needs to be something outside of the universe for it to expand into. The term universe tends to refer towards everything. But if there is something outside of everything then that means that the universe is not everything. Does this therefore mean that the universe is finite?

That appears to be what they are trying to do by posting here. That is not correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

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