• Question: is it true that there is dark matter on earth?

    Asked by kai to Ellen, Elliot, Hazel, Rupesh, Thomas on 22 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by 982bsmf24.
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      Thomas Biggans answered on 22 Jun 2016:


      We can’t tell for sure because we can’t detect dark matter directly and there isn’t enough of it around Earth to detect its effects on gravity.

      However we think that dark matter is passing through Earth all the time but it doesn’t interact with normal matter so we don’t notice and the dark matter doesn’t notice Earth either.

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