Dark Matter

[Axeman]

I have been aware of Dark Matter for a long time, and only recently have I begun to read up on the specifics of it and the theroies regaurding it, so I was wondering what all of your ideas are concering Dark Matter?

[Gaidin]

Matter which has gravitic pull but does not give off radiation of any kind should explain any idea regarding it well enough.

[Eskali]

When calculating the amount of force needed to hold our solar system together, in all the estimates they where nowhere near what the center of the solar system was giving off, there was this massive amount of uncounted/unknown energy which we now call dark matter.

Something i found interesting on particles smaller than neutrons and protons-
"Subatomic particles include the atomic constituents electrons, protons, and neutrons. Protons and neutrons are composite particles, consisting of quarks. A proton contains two up quarks and one down quark, while a neutron consists of one up quark and two down quarks; the quarks are held together in the nucleus by gluons. There are six different types of quark in all ('up', 'down', 'bottom', 'top', 'strange', and 'charm'), as well as other particles including photons and neutrinos which are produced copiously in the sun. Most of the particles that have been discovered are encountered in cosmic rays interacting with matter and are produced by scattering processes in particle accelerators. There are dozens of subatomic particles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle

also "Wait, there's more! Mesons are a family of very small particles thet includes pions, kaons, and B-mesons, which all consist of quarks and anti-quarks."

[QRS]

Dark matter is just something scientists made up to explain why all calculations about the mass of the solar system have been completely messed up.

There is something out there, but because we have no idea what it is, we just invent something to fill the gap.