Dark Matter And Philosophy
- It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed "dark matter", which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe.
- Despite this, we have no idea what it is - nobody has directly seen it or produced it in the lab.
- Nevertheless, physicists today overwhelmingly favour the dark matter hypothesis incorporated in the so-called ΛCDM model (Lambda Cold Dark Matter).
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