Dark matter, dark energy and dark stuff have become synonymous with the words 'unknown', 'abstract' and even 'incorrect' over the last few decades. The concept of these highly complex ideas caused an ever-active debate within the scientific community. However there is one underlying detail between the debates, the evidence and even the explanations. Humans have no concrete reasoning, or knowledge, of what dark stuff is.

Introduction

By: Saachi

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June 16th, 2023

From the beginning of time, humans have worked towards learning about the great unknown. Perhaps this came in the form of learning basic mathematics, literature or even the arts, one thing hasn't changed, the human characteristic to learn more. This innate sense of wanting to know what our small little universe held, seems to span millennia. From basic principles applied here on Earth to principles that have spaned light years, our curiosity, like ever-burning stars in the night sky, has never faded. Science, in it itself, is a self-sustaining concept, filled to the brim with peer review, research and countless debates on what truly should be considered true, and what should be discarded as a far-fetched theory. Even the most sound theories, like geocentrism, have been proven wrong over time. Unlike the rigid and unflinching parts of our society, science remains a facet of truth, and it remains a pillar of flexibility, never truly setting any theory in stone. Newton's laws of gravity, which were incredibly abstract, passed with flying colours through scientific society's peer review process and were largely regarded as some of the fundamental parts of science, the Principia. However, even these laws were subject to change, by Einstein himself with an alternate theory, the Theory of General Relativity. It is these characteristics of the ever-curious science that society has known to understand, and has known to hold as truth.