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		geon on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Could dark matter not exist? Does the "massive" in WIMP mean "have a mass" or "higher mass than other particles"?

InclinedPlane on June 30, 2015 [–]

It means it has non-zero mass. There are some theories of dark matter which would involve particles having thousands of times less mass than even a neutrino.

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