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February 15, 2001
"Our universe is a very strange cosmic cocktail."
Max Tegmark, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, on
recent research
supporting evidence that most of the universe is composed of undetectable
dark matter
(United Press International, Feb. 2)
Originally published on February 15, 2001
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