csharpmajor
Well antimatter is more or less an accepted theory but there's no solid proof for the plain and simple reason that it blows up in the presence of matter
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Then again, there's no solid proof for evolution so if you believe in evolution then you might as well believe in antimatter.
They say 90% of the universe is dark matter which is just a fancy way of saying they don't know what the hell it is. So yes, some of the dark matter could consist of antimatter.
But...we'll probably never be sure in our lifetime, if ever.
*slips up behind, garrotes, leaves in ditch*
Antimatter is so old hat it ain't even funny. We know it exists, we know how to obtain it, we know how to store it, we know how to work with it. It's tossed about in particle accelerators about the nation on a daily basis, and they keep their own stores of antiparticles on hand. It hasn't really been mysterious and uncertain since, like, the thirties. It's older than your grandfather, for cryin' out loud.
Evolution has so much proof behind it that it isn't even funny anymore.
A fun, fun outline of it all. It's long since moved past being Darwin's hypothesis to being a well proven theory to being an unequivocably accepted fact
forming the foundation of modern biology and medicine to being a
tool essential for understanding complex systems and their development, everything from social systems to the human brain to computer programs.
The term 'dark matter', as used by astrophysicists and the like, is not a term for anything magic at all. It means, 'matter which isn't emitting light'. We know how much a galaxy should mass, because of the way in which it moves. If it massed any less, the stars are moving too fast and they would fly apart. Gravity for you. We can also count the number of stars [the *non* dark matter, since it puts out light we can see] and add up how much they should mass. The latter figure is ten percent the former. Ergo, 90% of the galaxy must be 'dark' matter: not big glowing stars. Maybe it's burned out dwarf stars, maybe it's a bunch of free falling planetoids, maybe it's interstellar hydrogen, maybe it's black holes. All we know is that it has mass and it doesn't produce light.
Well, it's accepted unequivocably by everyone who matters.
