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Why do we think dark matter is made of particles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Dark Matter

There are lots of other fun theories of dark matter, an they sort of in tru categories. It's also possible that dark matter isn't a particle at all. So it could be just like dark stuff, or dark things. And then we've talked in the po cast about one of my favourite theories: primordial black holes. That theory is under stress a little bit because we haven't seen them and there's ways that they can evade our telescopes. But the point is, we just lydon't know,. Our best theory, our best understanding, our best hypothesis that all clicked together nicely, turned out to not be the theory of nature. It wasn't a miracle. You

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