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I thank you for your original answer, which makes perfect sense.

Ok thanks. She should have said something more like "Dark matter accounts for five sixths of the total massenergy content of the universe."

What is meant by the statement by Harvard scientist Lisa Randall that dark matter carries five times the energy of ordinary matter? Does E=mc2 not apply to dark matter? Does the statement refer to ordinary energy or to dark energy?

Large Hadron Collider - Exobiological Gedankenexperiments My posts do not argue this point.

Large Hadron Collider - Exobiological Gedankenexperiments Hopefully the LHC poses no significant environmental threat. Keep in mind, however, that a highly improbable sequence of events can become statistically inevitable given enough opportunities to occur, and can be expected quite soon when...

Large Hadron Collider - A Solution to the Fermi Paradox? Setting aside all the questions about whether the LHC presents a significant environmental danger (questions it is bound to answer one way or another during its operational career), suppose for the sake of argument that it is. If it is...