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The Best Way to Learn About the Dark Matter
The best way to learn about the dark matter is to study gravitational lensing. If you've got a clump of matter, clump of mass of any sort, then it distorts space time. And so if we look at galaxies which are far away in the universe through curved space time, which distorted by the dark matter, then these galaxies willl look distorted. That's the best way to see the dark matter. I know johnny went under sky at night and knew sir patrick really well. He did sort of purk up at this er, and he'd say, crystalinto what do you thinkprofessor?
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