95% of the Universe Is Invisible Here’s What CERN Is Looking For

Everything we can see, stars, planets, galaxies, and even ourselves, makes up only about 5% of the universe. The remaining 95% is invisible, known to scientists only through its gravitational effects. This unseen substance is called dark matter, and it may be the hidden structure holding reality together.

At CERN, researchers are using the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful scientific instrument ever built, to search for this missing matter. By smashing particles together at near light speed, scientists look for subtle imbalances in energy that could signal the presence of invisible particles passing through the detector.

So far, dark matter has not revealed itself directly. But every experiment narrows the possibilities, ruling out what it is not and bringing us closer to understanding what the universe is truly made of.

In this episode of Flow of Wisdom, we break down

Why scientists believe most of the universe is invisible

How CERN searches for dark matter without ever seeing it

What these experiments mean for our understanding of reality

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