Will dark matter ever be detected?

Answer 1

Nobody knows yet. Stay tuned.

No scientist has yet to figure out a successful way of gathering dark matter as of yet. Maybe in future time it will come. But i have been getting up some thought as of lately. Please forgive me if i sound stupid i have'nt really put tons of thought into it really(and it kind of goes of track), but if 70% of the universe is dark matter, I've recently watched a video with Machio Kaku, talking about warp drive and how they will have to bend the space time continuum to even get to other planets or universes. You will need either nuclear fusion or the capability to burn or use dark matter, and i thought to myself what if you could create a generator that could suck in space or the possible dark matter around it. Know im not a physicists or anything and this my sound like the rambling of an idiot but, Think about it, if there is dark matter all around space and people and the power of fusing atoms to get infinite amount of energy whichh could allow them to bend space why not have something that could gather or trap that bend space that hold dark matter and use it for energy. But even if i made sense that could cause problems huh. That would most likely leave a tare in that space and who knows what could happen. But this is just something that im just throwing out their from my mind lol.

Answer 2

Possibly. IF "dark matter" exists, then there is a good probability that we will eventually figure out how to detect it and manipulate it.

But we don't KNOW that "dark matter" actually exists, and that it isn't just a mathematical fantasy. If it doesn't really exist, then we'll probably never detect it.

But the search for knowledge routinely pays off in unexpected ways, a phenomenon that we call "serendipity".

There is an ancient tale about three princes from a land called Serendip who are sent out to find magical treasures. They never found the magical treasures, but they DID find many other fabulous things, and so the word "serendipity" means to find one thing while searching for something else entirely.

Answer 3

Proving its existence is not the problem - the existence of dark matter is fairly certain. There are lots of indications that it does, indeed, exist. Dark matter manifests itself through its gravitational attraction.

The problem is figuring out what it is made of - that's one of the great mysteries of modern Cosmology.

Answer 4

No. The think that makes dark matter "dark" is that it doesn't interact strongly with the electromagnetic force ... while we don't know exactly what dark matter is, that's the one thing we do know about it.

The sense of touch is based on electromagnetic force, so it would "feel" about like touching a shadow... i.e., like nothing at all.

It's entirely possible that dark matter is constantly streaming through your body, not interacting with the normal matter that makes up your atoms so you don't even notice it.

Answer 5

The evidence for the existence of dark matter -- matter with mass that does not emit light -- is overwhelming.

Answer 6

Nobody knows how to produce dark matter, mainly because, so far, nobody knows

whether dark matter really exists, or what it consists of if it does exist.