{"id":185237,"date":"2024-03-16T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-and-the-universe-is-27-billion-years-old-earth"},"modified":"2024-03-16T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T15:24:23","slug":"dark-matter-doesnt-exist-and-the-universe-is-27-billion-years-old-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-and-the-universe-is-27-billion-years-old-earth","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter doesn\u2019t exist and the universe is 27 billion years old \u2022 Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-doesnt-exist-and-the-universe-is-27-billion-years-old-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fabric of the cosmos, as we currently understand it, comprises three primary components: \u2018normal matter,\u2019 \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/dark-energy-is-ripping-the-universe-apart-but-we-arent-sure-how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark energy<\/a>,\u2019 and \u2018dark matter.\u2019 However, new research is turning this established model on its head.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uottawa.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Ottawa<\/a> presents compelling evidence that challenges the traditional model of the universe, suggesting that there may not be a place for dark matter within it.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter, a term used in cosmology, refers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/dark-stars-scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-star-powered-by-dark-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elusive substance<\/a> that does not interact with light or electromagnetic fields and is only identifiable through its gravitational effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabric of the cosmos, as we currently understand it, comprises three primary components: \u2018normal matter,\u2019 \u2018dark energy,\u2019 and \u2018dark matter.\u2019 However, new research is turning this established model on its head. A recent study conducted by the University of Ottawa presents compelling evidence that challenges the traditional model of the universe, suggesting that there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}