CREATION OF UNIVERSE:THE STANDARD theory on the creation of the universe is under threat, according to world leading cosmologist Prof Carlos Frenk.
At the British Science Association festival, Prof Frenk admitted he was losing sleep following the realisation that everything he had worked on for the last 35 years was based around an idea that was looking increasingly flawed. “I don’t say this lightly,” he said.
According to the standard model of cosmology, about a quarter of our universe is made of a mysterious substance known as dark matter.
Yet despite decades of searching, scientists have not found this dark matter, despite the use of sophisticated techniques. Even though it remains elusive, few doubt that dark matter exists.
“Without dark matter we wouldn’t be here. It is responsible for the structure of the universe,” Prof Frenk said, but “perhaps it is not what we think it is”.