"This is the decade of the WIMP, " said Michael Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.

WSJ: Scientists Find Hint of Dark Matter

One of the leaders of such dissent is Michael Disney, of Cardiff University, in Wales, who describes himself as an extra-galactic astronomer rather than a cosmologist.

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The main reason it was dreamed up (by Alan Guth, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was to explain the extraordinary uniformity of the universe.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology