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Scotohylology (DARK MATTER) with Flip Tanedo

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Is Dark Matter Really Dark Matter?

The Higgs boson, sometimes wrongly called the God particle, was discovered in 2013. In 1978, an astronomer named Vera Rubin crunched some numbers and hypothesized that dark matter exerts gravity. She did her calculations at this observatory that didn't even have women's restrooms. There were no ladies' rooms at the observatory.

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