Questions about Dark Matter

[michaelmozina]

Could this be a new "force"? Does Dark matter only manifest on the grandest scales? Or is this something that we may someday be able to capture in a lab?

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I really liked Saiph's explanations by the way. He seemed to touch on all the key points. The only other thing I would mention is that technically DM is not a 'new force' per se but it might be a new form of matter. Assuming that a new form of matter is in fact involved in these rotation patterns it is likely that the LHC experiments could/should observe them. It's not a given that we will find new forms of matter, but we should be able to produce them in controlled experiments if they exist.