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Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?
Season 7
Episode 6
By the time you've read this, a billion dark matter particles may have streamed through your body like ghosts. The particle or particles of the dark sector make up the vast majority of the mass of the universe - so to them, we're the ghostly ones. So, we try to make contact with dark matter particles and enter into the Dark Universe.
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