The Search For Dark Matter

The universe is still largely a mystery to scientists.
In the Seventies, astronomer Vera Rubin used her observations of the excessive speeds at which spiral galaxies rotate to conclude that a large proportion of matter in galaxies is hidden or ‘dark’.
Recent studies show that dark matter comprises 23 per cent of the matter in the universe.

Dark matter is not just out in space, but here – though in lesser quantities – on Earth too.
A million dark matter particles are passing every second through your little finger as you read these words.
It is called ‘dark’ because it doesn’t reflect light and is therefore invisible.
Nor does it have an electromagnetic field, which means it is almost impossible to detect by any conventional scientific measuring device.
Dark matter particles can pass easily through all solid objects.
Dark matter defies all our laws of physics.

The search for dark matter is one of the aims of the £6 billion Hadron Collider Project at Cern in Switzerland, and a major goal of other American and European projects.
A British attempt, which is costing £1 million a year to run, is located at a science facility 0.68 miles below ground at Boulby Mine on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.
There are perhaps about 300 scientists around the world attempting to detect dark matter and discover what it is made of.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to have roughly 10 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter.
Dark matter appears to hold the galaxies together.
Will we ever be able to discover the secrets and real purpose of dark matter?
As dark matter continues to pass through our body and pass through our world, many people and some scientists now believe it may be a ‘Heavenly’ or ‘Holy’ presence – the way our ‘Creator’ is able to monitor every single action and every single thought of us all.

And then there is ‘dark energy’, which seems to account for accelerating expansion of the universe, and is now thought to take up as much as 73 per cent of matter in the universe.
We don’t know what dark energy is made of, nor do we know its real purpose.

“Do you know the laws of Heaven?” (God speaking to Job, The Bible)