{"id":241101,"date":"2026-07-17T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/most-of-the-universe-is-missing-and-we-dont-know-why"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:02:56","slug":"most-of-the-universe-is-missing-and-we-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/most-of-the-universe-is-missing-and-we-dont-know-why","title":{"rendered":"Most Of The Universe Is Missing And We Don\u2019t Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/En56FSTiuA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everything you see, touch and are built from is a minority of what the universe is actually made of, and the closer physics looks at the rest, the less the picture holds together. Over the next 3 hours, we move outwards through that problem: from the 85 per cent of matter that is invisible, to the visible matter whose textbook description is admittedly unfinished, to a dimension of space that scientists are now building by hand in a lab, and finally to the question of whether we can ever truly know what reality is made of at all.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our interview with Dark Energy Researcher, Tessa Baker: \u2022 What If Dark Energy Comes From Space-Time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 Intro.<br \/> 00:01:39 We May Be Wrong About Dark Matter.<br \/> 00:31:38 Frank Close: We Were Wrong About Matter.<br \/> 01:39:09 Scientists Build A Window Into The Fourth Dimension.<br \/> 02:01:37 Sean Carroll: We May Never Understand Reality.<\/p>\n<p>Love New Scientist? For a specially discounted New Scientist digital subscription, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/youtube\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/most-of-the-universe-is-missing-and-we-dont-know-why\">Continue reading \u201cMost Of The Universe Is Missing And We Don\u2019t Know Why\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you see, touch and are built from is a minority of what the universe is actually made of, and the closer physics looks at the rest, the less the picture holds together. Over the next 3 hours, we move outwards through that problem: from the 85 per cent of matter that is invisible, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241101","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=241101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}