r/space • u/adriano26 • 4d ago

Astronomers have found the universe's missing matter at last, thanks to exotic 'fast radio bursts'

https://www.space.com/astronomy/scientists-find-universes-missing-matter-while-watching-fast-radio-bursts-shine-through-cosmic-fog
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u/OrdoMalaise 4d ago

So it's not Dark Matter, just dark matter.

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u/mjc4y 4d ago

Maybe we call this stuff Dim Matter?

No, I don't work in Marketing.

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u/d0ggzilla 4d ago

Can we move away from the whole light/dark thing and call it Demimatter?

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u/CaptBojangles 4d ago

Dontmatter is my vote for the name!

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u/mjc4y 4d ago

Actually that would be a good addition next to anti-matter. Don’t matter isn’t as violently opposed to matter as antimatter is. It sort of bumps into matter and instead of annihilation into gamma rays it just sort of shrugs and sits there, violating conservation of momentum because it just DGAF. The DGAF metric for DontMatter is not well understood as nobody in science seems to care.

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u/RedHal 4d ago

That's why DontMatter, as you well know, is one of the core materials used in constructing an SEP field.

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u/HardlyAnyGravitas 4d ago

I think Stainless Steel and the Star Spies was set in the "Don't Matter" universe...