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This is John Batchel, a conversation with my colleague Bob Zimmerman about the missing matter problem.

95% of the universe or some large number was not found.

The rest of us, what we can see, we only make up about 5%.

Dark energy and dark matter are presumed to be the balance.

What about dark matter?

Missing matter.

Bob here explains how it might be that it was always there.

We just were using instruments that were not sensitive to spotted

interstellar space.

The barions. Bob explains.

Is Bob Zimmerman on the missing matter?

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