Meong Minus Two - Is There a Hole in the Standard Model?

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There is no particle or force carrier in the standard model that describes this notion of gravity. But we know it exists, right? Because apples fall from trees and i am not floating off my seat becase. So one gap could be a particle to help explain gravity, yes. But then also, when we look at actually everything s out there. The standard model only consists of five % of everything, and the rest of that is dark matter and dark energy. And we still haven't figured out how that falls into our theories and how that fell into our standard model. Come so there's a whole bunch of questions that we know are there,. There's a whole bunc of things that

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.

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