The leading candidates for being the building blocks of dark matter are WIMPS, or “weakly interacting massive particles.” They are called massive only in a relative sense, meaning they are larger than a proton or a hydrogen atom. Recent thinking about WIMPS suggests their strange nature, one that immediately causes us to hearken back to many of our volunteers’ reports: “If WIMPS were indeed created in the Big Bang, we will be surrounded by them because of their gravitational interaction with the visible matter in the universe. Indeed, as you read this article there could be a billion WIMPS
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