The New Scientist blog is reporting that scientists in Italy say they are on the verge of explaining what "dark matter" actually is. Apparently for years science has argue that this phenomena has even existed.
The controversy dates back to 1998 when the DAMA collaboration claimed it had found evidence for particles of dark matter passing
through its detector located in an underground laboratory deep within the Gran Sasso mountain, Italy. Dark matter is the invisible,
mysterious stuff thought to make up nearly 90% of matter in the universe.
I find it fascinating that there is still some much about space that no one on Earth knows about. I wasn't alive in the 1960s, but there seemed to be an overwhelming belief in pop culture that we would be traveling from planet to planet, solar system to solar system already.
And yet, we are no where close. It seemed that 50, 40 even 30 years ago technology was growing and advancing at unworldly rates. Sure that happens with electronics, I am well aware that the laptop I bought last summer is old and out dated.
But what about space exploration? Americans landed on the moon in 1969. That's almost 40 years ago. Since then, almost nothing has happened. There is a space station, and a robot went to Mars... and that's it. Is it possible that conspiracy theorists are correct? Is there a huge bunker somewhere in the desert that hosted the entire moon landing? It's an interesting thought...
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