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The Dark Matter Candidate - The Wimps
particle physicists are very creative we're very good at inventing particles. Sometimes they turn out to exist for instance the neutrino and antimatter, sometimes they don't you just have to go looking. There's a wide zoo of possibilities for the dark matter with a huge range of different masses and different properties but probably the most popular is things called weakly interacting massive particles known as wimps. Durham challenges the world and not for the first time.