Dark Matter

As a novice roving Africa wide consultant, I have discovered a new source of rich information. BBC World! You will not believe the incredible things that I hear...

This morning there was an interview with a professor who is actively seeking dark matter. His experiments are taking place a mere one kilometre underground in a Potash mine in Yorkshire. I am not sure if this is because it is really dark down there? Dark matter as you may well know is the stuff that was presumably present before the big bang. In other words the quintessential building blocks of all matter as we know it.

This professor joked that the reason it is called dark matter is because we know nothing about it but it obviously exists. Ah, sure professor, whatever you say!

Strangely these are not the only scientists looking for this phantom substance. There are more real people with real paying jobs doing scientific experiments in Switzerland. Their strategy is slightly different to the dark mine principles. Instead they are looking for this illusive stuff by banging objects violently together.

Dark mines and violence, surely these people are looking in the wrong place. After all, Africa is the place where all this stuff is at?