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Old 25-05-2011, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by higginsdj View Post
True, but what constitutes Dark Matter in 'theory' is just a hypothisis - so at the very basic level, anything that we previously could not detect but now can detect could in fact be what was previously known as dark matter!
If you wanted to take a very broad definition of what constitutes "dark matter", then you would loosely be correct. But if you took dark matter to be what most physicists and astronomers commonly think of it as being (particles of matter that can't be detected by normals means and only interact with the rest of the universe by their gravitational influence) then you would be incorrect.
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