I guess I didn't realize to what extent we made shit up so the universe fits into our "standard models". Nice vid!
"But Bauer is facing a problem. His dark matter detector is made of normal matter. The kind of normal matter that dark matter passes right through."
I don't know why, but this cracks me up.
There's one thing I don't quite get about dark matter (imagine that). They created it to solve for the fact that galaxy rotations didn't work the same way our solar system rotations did (farther out planets move slower around the sun in our solar system but for galaxies they move at the same speed). But then they say that millions of dark matter particles pass through us all the time. Wouldn't we, then, along with our solar system emit the same behavior as these galaxies?
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