They’ve found missing matter in web-like threads across the universe, interconnecting the galaxies. The ionized hydrogen plus oxygen and other elements (called baryonic matter, not to be confused with the more mysterious dark matter) has been too hot to be visible, and too cold to be measured by x-rays. Scientists at University of Colorado-Boulder found the matter by using the light of distant quasars, like flashlights through the fog, the article says.

"We think we are seeing the strands of a web-like structure that forms the backbone of the universe," said CU-Boulder Professor Mike Shull. "What we are confirming in detail is that intergalactic space, which intuitively might seem to be empty, is in fact the reservoir for most of the normal, baryonic matter in the universe."

Is it possible energy, or vibrations, could travel the strands? That might explain a lot.

University of Colorado at Boulder (2008, May 20). Missing Matter Of Universe Found; Cosmic Web Discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from http://www.sciencedaily.com¬ /releases/2008/05/080520152013.htm