Dark matter, about 99% of the universe excists of it.
It has something to do with the explanation of the expanding of the universe.

It's called dark matter because nobody could ever identify it.

That's what I know about it, not much andd I might be wrong, but I think I'm close anyway.

Back to the pic, that's weird.

Edit: found a link and reset the percentage to 99% instead of 80
Edit#2: Yet another linky or try Google

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Edited by - Nickless on 01-10-2003 13:35:14

Dim matter isn't very bright.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Dark Matter? Who cares, try some Dark Energy or Anti Matter for some fun!!

BURN CORSAIR BURN!!!!

I must do some reading on dark matter. As for that pic, don't be silly! Somone just left thier coffee mug on the picture!

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Looks ovaly to me.... So that means it couldn't be a coffee mug. Maybe it's this... Holy.... It is it! No......

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how did they get the space podule so far out to take the photo? or is it aliens again?

Thats it!! I KNEW artists were really Nomads!! Either that, or some ones got a not to serious coffee addiction... who would let it spill all over their computer?

BURN CORSAIR BURN!!!!

*sticks gun up* this is an anti-hijack! everyone back on topic! so anyone know what dim matter is?

It's that brown stuff wich looks mysteriously like a coffee-stain

ITS NOMADS!!!!!!!!! WITH COFFEE!!!!!!!!

(God, Ive been playing freelancer too long....)

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@ kimk- Are you sure that wasn't a space fly smudged all-over the lens???
but as for dim-matter I do not know what it is.

@Nickless:

If we can't Identify Dark Matter. How could it possibly Exist??.
we wouldn't be able to Identify smell nor see it. Let alone Hear it

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I for one have never heard of dim matter and don't know enough even about dark matter for discussion.

And of COURSE nomads have coffee! Any species that is intelegent enough to plan a takeover of serrius has GOT to be drinking coffee. You people suprise me sometimes

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Dim matter; i beleive it is the unaccounted for matter that does not fall into the category of "dark" matter. Examples would be "brown" dwarfs, stars that never get enough mass enough to initiate nuclear fusion reactions, but are warm enough to emit detectable IR wavelengths. or it could be mini-black holes which although undetectable of themselves, have EM emissions coming from the matter that falls into their event horizons.

to be fair, "dark" matter is a catch-all term used (wrongly) to label all undetected matter in the universe. there may be many different sorts of dark matter or the undetected matter may be something else like neutrinos or theoretical WIMPs. all we really know is that something is exerting gravitational force but we can't find the something itself, and that the mass of most galaxies is 5-10 times greater than can be accounted for by visible matter (the mass-to-light ratio) yet this undetectable "stuff" is binding the galaxies together, otherwise they'd fly apart.

Yep, what Taw said. Check the second link, it explains in a few words very clearly what this stuff is all about.

Basically they can detect it by looking at the affects instead of the matter directly.

It's called dark matter because today's science has not the means to detect the matter. It's undetectable using Infra-red and all the other means they use. That's why they call it dark.

They know it's there because the galaxies spin a lot faster than they should according to there (estimated) masses. Wich means that there is something heavy out there providing the extra mass neccesary to keep the galaxies together. That extra mass is called Dark Matter .

Understand?