Originally posted by TheFallibleFiend:
Good find.
I'm a little confused by these parts:
Stmt 1: "Dark matter - which does not emit or reflect enough light to be "seen" - is thought to make up 25% of the Universe."
Stmt 2: "This provides the first direct proof that dark matter must exist and that it must make up the majority of the matter in the Universe."
I've heard statements comparable to 2 previously.
I'm having trouble assimilating these: Is it "25%" or is it "the majority of the matter in the Universe?" Or am I missing something?
I read on wikipedia that there was an experiment which claimed to detect dark matter passing through the earth, but apparently other experiments conflict with it. That may be where you heard statement 2.
Also, the 25% is the majority of matter in the universe because 5% is regular matter and the rest is dark energy.
