Dark matter

Welcome to the Wikiversity learning project for Dark matter.

## Reading

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Ring of dark matter in the galaxy cluster CL 0024+17

* Dark matter \- Wikipedia article
* Observations that support the existence of dark matter \- article by Douglas Clowe, et al. (2006)
* DAMA/NaI \- laboratory experiment attempting to detect dark matter
* Non-baryonic dark matter matter \- review by Paolo Gondolo (2004).
* Investigation of possible dark matter direct detection in electron accelerators \- by Junji Hisano, et al (2006).
* Astronomy/Current Unsolved Mysteries \- Wikibooks
* Observational Evidence for Extra Dimensions from Dark Matter by Bo Qin, Ue-Li Pen and Joseph Silk (2006).

## Discussion

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According to this essay by w:Joe Silk, "There is at most an amount of dark matter in the disk equal to the amount of luminous matter." I would like to find some published articles about how this estimate is made. --JWSchmidt 17:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

## See also

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* Mnemtronium \- an attempt to "think outside of the box" and link some "psychic phenomena" to dark matter.