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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
That's exactly it.

I have a teeeny-tiny issue with the "cannot be observed" part. We have not figured out what it is yet, but "cannot be observed" is often interpreted as "it is impossible to observe it, now or ever".

It's a bit like an ancient Greek claiming that we will never know what a lightning is made from.
Yes, maybe better to say at the time could not be observed. But I think theorist were hoping for discovery of new exotic particles that escaped detection. Instead they found boring baryons that formed a wispy structure that was too cold to be "seen" by X-ray telescopes.