New Scientist: Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe – protons, neutrons and electrons – unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.
It had slipped down the back of the sofa, apparently.
The world is matter.
We are matter.
But it doesn't matter.
Capt Beefheart.
One of my favourite quotes, although I remember it as ‘The stars are matter…’.