- Researchers have just found evidence of “dark electrons”—electrons you can’t see using spectroscopy—in solid materials.
- By analyzing the electrons in palladium diselenide, the team was able to find states that functionally cancel each other out, blocking the electrons in those “dark states” from view.
- The scientists believe this behavior is likely to be found across many other substances as well, and could help explain why some superconductors behave in unexpected ways.
But dark energy and dark matter make up 95% of our universe. So they would be the “normal”.
If anything, the 5% that we do know would be the “abnormal”.
And anyway, it’s only called dark energy and dark matter, not because it doesn’t have a cause, but because it doesn’t interact with light (photons don’t interact with it).
Although I think you are right that they don’t know what causes it. It does interact with gravity, though.
But all this is way beyond my tiny brain.