Is There a Myth About Dark Matter?

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Dark matter is not antimatter. It's probably also not black holes. There have been some thoughts recently that there might be little tiny black holes that were formed in the universe and would behave like dark matter. And now you mentioned something about dark atoms and dark chemistry. They're trying to make sense of dark matter using a field of math that applies to everything else. Is there a possibility that there's a dark math, that there's just a completely different way of trying to quantify everything? That is one perhaps for the philosophy department.

It’s invisible. It’s mysterious. It’s all around us – and no one knows what it is. Let’s have a fun existential crisis by pondering Dark Matter! The world’s most affable and endearing theoretical particle physicist, Dr. Flip Tanedo of UC Riverside, makes the Large Hadron Collider, Higgs bosons, and neutrinos make sense. Also: Star Trek, space ghosts, vintage insults, supernovas and more. You’ll leave with a newfound wonder and the desire to read physics journals for the secrets of life.

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