Quote (Xath1 @ Sat, Jan 10 2009, 02:23am)
Has anyone taken a jar and tried to scoop up some?
Does it have mass?
Is it dark because it is a dark color being lit up by stars and/or other sources or is it the absence of light?
Is it like a gas and fills up the container it's in?
:S (Grade 10 science, Go easy on me)
Dark matter has mass, it has no charge, and can only be affected by gravity. (Hence the 'dark' part)
This means that it is only detected by gravitational lensing of light.
Some say that dark matter consists of neutrinos.
I think I even read an article in an astronomy magazine that said that there could be dark matter between the earth and the moon to account for anomalous accelerations of satellites, but I just believe that this is something that points to the aether's existence.