Could a cosmic uncertainty principle help explain dark matter?

Anyone who has been paying attention to cosmology over the past few years is aware of problems with our best attempts to explain why the universe is the way it is. Our standard model, Lambda-CDM (or LCDM), is one of the most successful theories in the history of science. It accounts for the cosmic microwave background , the large-scale distribution of galaxies, the abundances of light elements, and basically every other large-scale observation we throw at it. …