Quite possibly, it is simply another form of matter.. An anti-matter, if you will... Since everything must have an opposite in order to exist... matter and existence must also have an opposite.. maybe this dark matter somehow cancels true matter..

Possibly.

I guess there's just no telling in what it could be.

I couldn't tell you that clearly without finding out more about it but my first guess from the things i have heard in the last half hour would probably be Chaos.

Sounds like something out of Star Trek while talking about how warp engines work.

lol.. I hated that show..

What do you mean that it's chaos?

>What is that mysterious dark energy or matter surrounding us?
A placeholder theory until we can explain the effects of the universe that brought about the theory.

>Could it be the presence of God...?
It could be anything, though the "presence of God" tends to be an explanation that halts scientific discovery and understanding.

>How do we know dark matter exists if we do not have any way to measure it?
We do have a way to measure it. Measure the matter that we can measure and if the result isn't enough to create cohesion, there must be matter that we can't see. That's the whole idea behind dark matter. Astrophysicists realized that there isn't enough visible matter to to hold the galaxies together. The estimated amount of gravity simply couldn't be created by that small amount to keep a galaxy from falling apart. So some genius (note the sarcasm) filled in the missing matter with something that can't be seen or measured, creatively calling it dark matter.

Similarly, dark energy is the result of measuring the expansion of the universe and trying to explain why it's increasing rather than slowing down or remaining the same.

>maybe this dark matter somehow cancels true matter..
Well first, dark matter couldn't be antimatter because it's visible matter that we can measure. Second, if dark matter canceled true matter, that would kind of defeat the purpose of dark matter which is to fill in the missing matter that measurements of the universe have highlighted.

I think you people have been watching too much Outer Limits Dark matter exists only in your imagination.

Yes, that may be true... but science can only explain 4% of what we actually see. What about the other 96% of energy and matter surrounding us? If this is true, and science can't measure everything else dominating the universe, it could very well be the presence of God.

Anytime there is anything unexplainable by science, the Christians always jump to the conclusion that it's 'god'. Just b/c something is unknown to us, that doesn't mean it is caused by some supreme being..

It can though.
And just to let you know, Christians think that God is in everything. So it's not like we would think it was anything else but that.