On Monday, April 28, 2014 4:13:04 PM UTC-4, wlandsman wrote:

One of the spectacular successes of cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology

is that it quantitatively explains the observed void structures.

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What would have been truly spectacular
is if some theory had actually *predicted*
the vast filamentary cosmic web/void
structure before there were observations
that revealed this important cosmological
clue.

As far as I know, no theory did this but I
am wiling to listen to counter-arguments.

To me retrodictive model-building is not
"spectacular", but rather is almost
guaranteed to come up with several good
explanations for the observed phenomenon,
given a considerable number of motivated
and talented theorists.