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Invisible wealth, and its role in determining fate of our economy

By XN Iraki

Astronomers shocked the world in the 1930s when they said that 90 per cent of the universe is invisible, despite the countless stars you at night. And this invisible material, which they called "dark matter", holds the key to the eventual fate of the Universe, whether it will end in a whimper, or with a bang, to quote Poet T.S Elliot… or was it Robert Frost?

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