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Many scientists are speculating that the so-called "dark matter" could be composed of WIMPs - weakly interacting massive particles. Some have said that these particles could be neutrinos - which have recently been found to have mass. How could this be true? If 90% of the mass of the universe is indeed composed of dark matter, and if this matter is WIMPS, then, in the case of our solar system, WIMPS would wreak havoc on the orbits of the planets in our solar system. But, all of the matter and gravitational forces in our solar system have been accounted for by Newton and Einstein. Are scientists somehow suggesting that WIMPs only exist between star-systems in galaxies and not within star-systems in galaxies? This sounds preposterous to me.
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