{"id":7448,"date":"2010-02-11T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:17:26","slug":"traces-of-dark-matter-discovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/traces-of-dark-matter-discovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Traces of Dark Matter discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Scientists may have caught their first ever glimpse of “dark matter” – the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up three quarters of the matter of the universe.<\/p>\n

Traces of two “dark matter particles” were picked up by highly sensitive detectors buried 2,000 ft below the ground at the bottom of an old iron mine, researchers report today.<\/p>\n

The scientists say there is a three in four chance that the observations are genuine particles of dark matter, rather than just background noise.<\/p>\n

Dark matter is one of the big mysteries of physics and its discovery would be one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the last 100 years.<\/p>\n

In the 1930s astronomers first realised that the stars, gas and dust only made up a fraction of the matter of the universe. They concluded that galaxies would fall apart unless they were held in place by the gravitational pull of some vast, invisible substance.<\/p>\n

For more than 80 years, scientists have debated what this dark matter could be and why we can’t see it.<\/p>\n

One of the most likely candidates is a tiny object called a “weakly interactive massive particle” or Wimp which bombards the earth from space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And to prove that even science can be funny:<\/p>\n

Researchers have been looking for traces of Wimps for the last nine years at the bottom of a disused Soudan iron mine in Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The perfect place for a wimp to hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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