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Article: DARK MATTER, DARK ENERGY BAFFLE SCIENCE RESEARCHERS SAY ONLY 4 PERCENT OF THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OF NORMAL ATOMS.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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Byline: Robert S. Boyd Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON -- According to a batch of reports to be published today in a special "Welcome to the Dark Side" issue of the journal Science, most of the cosmos cannot be seen, even with the most powerful telescopes. All but a tiny fraction of creation consists of two exotic, invisible ingredients called "dark energy" and "dark matter."
Astronomers admit they don't understand either of them. "Cosmologists have no idea what the nature of the dark matter and the dark energy may be," Jordi Miralda-Escude, an astronomer at Ohio State University in Columbus, wrote in Science.
According to the latest ...