Do you think dark matter is real or could?

Hopefully this is a subject that most people know..since they dont know nothing about black holes and white holes. But do you think that dark matter is real? Do you think it covers about I think they said 60%...idk.
And no I'm not googling I'm not on Facebook these are real questions scientists actually discuss. They say that dark matter makes up a good bit of the universe but its hard to detect. One scientist believes that (s)he found it, a huge chunk of nothingness in space like no matter and stuff. Watch some PBS science scishow, Neil degrades, or michio kaku... or Stephen hawking

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Northwest · M

If you want to discuss dark matter, then you should be able to discuss blackholes, and whiteholes. They're all branches of the same theoretical/experimental body of work.

What we know, is that, based on (again, on what we know), of the size/mass of the galaxies, and in order for the universe to make sense (again, based on the start of the art of Physics), the galaxies cannot possibly be "held together", by their own "observable" matter. So, based on the matter we "see", galaxies should be spinning loose and out of control.

This means that there is something out there, that we cannot see, but seems to be 6 times the weight of visible matter.

If, indeed it is what we theorize it to be, then it's immune from EMF, so essentially it neither absorbs, nor reflects light. So, we can't see it, ergo, Dark Matter. Up until the era of modern Physics, we invented something called the Ether, to explain certain things, and it made sense at time, based on our understanding of science, at the time. Turns out there is no Ether. Perhaps Dark Matter is the new Ether, or maybe not.

That's really about as much as we know about it, at this point, but a good segment of researchers in Physics, are very busy, trying to figure it out.

That aside, there's also the matter of Dark Energy (not related to Star Wars), which is distributed across both time and distance, throughout the universe, but that's a different topic.