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In reply to the discussion: Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon [View all]D Gary Grady
(133 posts)41. There's good evidence dark matter as such really exists
You're not alone. For a long time a lot of people suspected that such things as the rotational behavior of spiral galaxies could best be explained with a revised theory of gravity. But evidence has been piling up that dark matter really is a form of matter that interacts with other matter only gravitationally. In particular, gravitational lensing has permitted mapping the distribution of dark matter and shownit to be different from that of the visible parts of galaxies.
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The universe may be expanding d/t dark energy which some folks confuse with dark matter.
hue
Feb 2013
#11
Every time I hear about Dark Matter I have to post this Calvin & Hobbes Strip:
yodermon
Feb 2013
#12
:-) this is an older article, but it was one of the 1st to "shine a light on dark matter!"
hue
Feb 2013
#16
No, CERN had planned to shut down the LHC in order to revamp the collider and it's magnets for more
hue
Feb 2013
#22
Dark matter is all the packing materials for all the equipment being used to study dark matter.
longship
Feb 2013
#21
Dark energy and dark matter are the result of the matter/anti-matter reaction. The mass of each
firenewt
Feb 2013
#31