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No, because if nothing else we don't actually know what it's composed of. It's entirely possible that it will turn out to be a new family of particles, for exam
by breadbox 14y ago
No, because if nothing else we don't actually know what it's composed of. It's entirely possible that it will turn out to be a new family of particles, for example.
But more to the point, dark matter is certainly not made up of quarks and/or electrons (because it doesn't interact electromagnetically), so shoehorning it into a list of phases of "normal" matter is misleading at best, if not simply wrong.