• Question: Do you know anything about the composition of dark matter at this point in time?

    Asked by anon-244429 to Ed on 12 Mar 2020.
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      Edward Banks answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      Not much- the prevailing theory is that it’s made up particles that don’t interact with very much very often; in fact they only interact with the weak force and gravity. But they still have mass, so we call them WIMPs- Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.

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