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Most of Our Universe is Missing
Most of Our Universe is Missing
8.30pm to 9.30pm SBS Sunday 29 October 2006
There was a time, not so long ago, when science seemed to understand how the universe worked. But recently things have started to unravel. According to this documentary, there is, it seems, a lot more to the universe than meets the eye and we only really know what 4% of the universe is made of. But if only 4% is made of atoms, what about the rest? From the most advanced deep space satellites to the world's deepest mines, cosmologists are on the dark matter trail. And the stakes are high; whoever finds the elusive dark stuff is virtually guaranteed a Nobel Prize, and could well have paved the way for the biggest prize of all - the elusive 'theory of everything'. Revolution is in the air as we visit the world's most powerful telescopes, fly through outer space, tour a virtual 'dark universe' and travel to the Earth's deepest mines to try to find the missing majority of what makes the universe
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