Dark matter is made of the theoretical weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). These particles are part of the physical world and provide the 'glue' that holds galaxies together as gravity alone is insufficient. At large hadron colliders, so far, dark matter remains undetected and this could be due to a number of things, the main one being that when the massive particles (which cannot be seen as there is no photonic emission) collide with already vibrating baryonic atoms, the change in the rate of vibration has proved too slight for detection thus far. |
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