Dark matter found (?)

[anir]

Dark Matter

n : (cosmology) a hypothetical form of matter that is believed to make up 90 percent of the matter in the universe;

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Currently scientists assume that dark matter makes up approximately 23 percent of the matter in the universe.

(approx. 73 % dark energy)

You figure, everything in the universe has been 'glowing' since the beginning of time.? I imagine a good amount of that energy is lost, 99.9% (completely made up figure) of it never hitting any matter (and recycling the energy).

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You cannot create or destroy energy resp. matter resp. time.

Hmm, my physics teacher said that "Dark matter" was probably neutrinos.

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Dark matter cannot be neutrinos, because neutrinos belong to the leptones.

Edited February 5, 2005 by anir

[Black Raven]

Intresting article. Learned something new today.

[TmasterT]

omg this is freakin cool!!

[PureLogic]

we find this stuff all around the universe and so on but we still don't know what's at the bottom of the oceans, on our own planet!

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Yeah well maybe that's because of the immense pressure that doesn't exists in space? :rolleyes:

And I don't think there is a need to know what's down there, it doesn't really get us anywhere.

[Code.Red]

So cool, but so mind boggling.. :wacko: