4% of Universe Known; No-one At The Times Watches Star Trek Then

If you’re wondering what the LHC might do for you, how’s this: it might just find a whole quarter of the universe. The collider is hoping to create some particles of what physicists call “dark matter”, an enigma that is thought to make up roughly 25 per cent of the universe. Then there is the “dark energy”, a mysterious force that seems to be ripping space and time apart. In total, a whopping 96 per cent of the universe has gone AWOL. Unless, that is, we’ve got our maths all wrong. Watch this space.

So Michael Brooks of The Times writes. How silly. He probably borrowed it from a physics site such as top ten physics problems for stupid and lazy journalists but failed to register that no-one can tell us what percentage of the unknown we do not know.