Dark Matter Collides With Human Tissue An Average of Once a Minute, Study Finds

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So what part of dark matter is science? Repeatedly we are told it's never been observed. But yet we know how often it hits a human?

Lol! Cosmologists are funny people.

Correction: what part of science is dark matter?

We can observe dark matter, it has gravity. We can "see it" through its gravitational field, but it has no electrical charge and no nuclear forces or very weak. All we know is that it exists and has gravity.

I'm not sure we can even say that. I think it is more dark matter is inferred because otherwise they couldn't explain observations which would otherwise contradict their models. Like why the milky way can be shaped like it is.....but yet still be as old as they want it to be.

It may be naive to assume we can interact with all forms of energy. Just because we can't touch it, feel it, or sense it directly with instruments yet doesn't mean it isn't there. The indirect information we can gather about dark matter is enough for scientists to keep trying and working towards inventing instruments to enable us to sense it. Those who can't imagine a world beyond our senses are missing out on the mystery of science!

@Bagpipes100 It's called gravitational lensing.

I'm not sure who did the math for 100,000 interactions a year equals about 1 interaction per minute. 60*24*365 = 525600 minutes in a year....so in reality there's about 1 interaction every 5 minutes. I'm just saying this is the main caption for this article and it's not even right based on the 100,000 interaction per year. WTF

i think dark matter is like the "Force" from Star wars. taken in large amounts makes one "superhuman". or maybe its the deleted stuff from this simulation we call reality. maybe the makers made a mistake not getting rid of it. in order to get rid of it they would have to "format" our entire existence. and they dont want to do that since they are studying how long we flourish on "earth".

"religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom"

-Killah Priest

Eating too many prunes makes for much dark matter....
And for the rest of dark energy and dark matter, always remember it is just a theory that fits an equation nicely, but still not found.

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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!

Dark Matter is the name of the fictional missing matter in the universe. Science- "must be sumphin makin all this here stuff stick together, cause there ain't enough stuff to make her stick". This article however is the extrapolation of nothing to the Nth degree and explains how nothing could interact with us. Dumb article to make dumber people feel sorta smart.

So for the benefit of Bagpipes and all the commenters who think they're smarter than theoretical physicists, here's the short explanation.
We have Newton's excellent theory of gravity which, combined with Einstein's general Relativity, explain all the phenomena we can observe up close. With some minor refinements, we have figured it out well enough that we can keep GPS sattelites tracking accurately, and throw a space probe all the way to Pluto, banking it off several planets along the way. We have this down, guys!

The problem arises when we observe distant galaxies and take note of their rotation and their gravitational effects on light passing from behind them. It doesn't add up to what we already know about how gravity works.

So Dark Matter is theorized to make up the difference. We can't observe it directly, but we are observing effect that indicate either A: Dark Matter exists in approximately the amounts theorized, or B: Everything we know about gravity is wrong. It's possible that B is correct, but we have no reason to suspect that so far, so currently everyone who knows what they're talking about is going with A.

So unless you know something Newton & Einstein didn't, and you have a theory that will stand up to exhaustive testing and peer review, try not to make yourself look like an idiot by posting inane New-age crap or creationist garbage on science articles. And go read something better than these lamely-written Pop-Sci articles. There's alot of fascinating science blogs out there written by real scientist that know what they're talking about. PopSci.com is not one of them.

I think dark matter and energy is the 90% of the iceberg under the surface that gives rise to the 10% of the iceberg we actually see. For a more in depth explanation please check this out.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/irwitte/an-amateurs-cosmological-theory-of-everything