Thunderbolts Forum v3.0

… the past three decades of the search for dark matter have been characterized by null results. For most of that time, researchers have been looking for a single particle to explain dark matter. Yet dark matter might not be one particular particle—it may be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces. In this dark sector, particles would interact through their own independent forces and dynamics, creating a hidden world of cosmology running parallel to our own. There could be dark atoms—made of dark protons, dark neutrons and dark electrons—held together by a dark version of electromagnetism. The carriers of this force, the dark photons, might (unlike our photons) have mass, allowing huge dark atomic nuclei—so-called nuggets—to form.