In the search for dark matter, an unexpected tool may give scientists hope - Inverse

The science seems to be on the side of physicists hunting the stuff — but there's another unexpected source of help from the humanities: philosophy.

It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed dark matter, which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is nobody h… [+6443 chars]

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