Dark Matter Reveals The Hidden Secrets

Particle Accelerator Is Used for Finding Dark Matter

At first, human thought that the universe was created from the dirt, wind, fire and water. Those four fundamental things -- which the Avataar showed on the television --, were coined by the Greek civilization. Until thousands of years later, we decided that atoms were the basic concept of creating the universe. Did we choose the best answer?

Well, apparently our decision about atoms was not fully correct. And even more, it was correct for only 5 per cent by the total. We moved out and changed our understanding about the universe was not merely created by the atoms. So, what is it? What is our next destination in understanding of the universe?

The understanding began its way from two experts in astronomy. Both of them realised something happened to our universe in 1930s and 1980s. By observing the space objects such as stars and planets in some sort of galaxies, they noticed that the space objects including the galaxies were rotating so fast. Interestingly, they found the objects was moving without any factors. It did not move because of the gravity from other objects. So, what happened? Unseen force beside gravity? Then one of the two experts coined dunkle materie, Fritz Zwicky Mumbled.

Dark matter? A matter that has a black colour? Well, actually it was not literal. It meant about a matter that unseen by our normal eyes or other sophisticated instrumentations that have ever built several years ago. The understanding was based on something that bothered us about what made the stars, galaxies, have been affected to move in such speed.

This unseen energy could be created from the particle which is not yet classified in the world of particle physics. But, it can produce a big energy and affect the enormous object to move. Since we have the general relativity published by Einstein hundred years ago, we have been modelling and today we are able to detect the gravitational waves happened to the outer of the Earth. The dark matter currently is not detected by any imaging instrumentation yet. But, the search of dark matter has been starting since the coining words began.

Overall, the search of dark matter has begun to race and it invites many theoretical, experimental physicists and engineers around the world. And its breakthrough could reveal the universe's secrets.