RE: Newest super-sensitive test failed to catch a Dark Matter particle. Why?
August 12, 2016 at 2:18 pm
(August 12, 2016 at 1:49 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(August 12, 2016 at 11:16 am)theBorg Wrote: Thus, the area of Dark Matter is the anomaly.Huh.
Alex can get into more details as he's an actual physicist, but I thought I recalled that visible matter was actually the anomaly.
This appears to be case. WMAP suggests that 4.6% of the mass/energy of the visible universe is baryonic matter (in layman's terms, ordinary matter capable of being directly observed). Of that 4.6%, only 10% is found within galaxies. We can only infer the existence of the overwhelming majority of the mass/energy of the universe.