Scientists spend a lot of time searching for dark matter, despite not really knowing if it exists
The Large Underground Xenon experiment, or LUX, just failed to turn up dark matter. So wait, what exactly is dark matter? Let's quote the article, so that I can sound a wee bit smarter in the process.
Even more so than the recently discovered Higgs boson, dark matter is central to the universe.
About one-quarter of the cosmos is comprised of dark matter —…
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