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Retro · 12-18-2009, 04:57 AM

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In a series of coordinated announcements at several US laboratories, researchers said they believed they had captured dark matter in a defunct iron ore mine half a mile underground. The claim, if confirmed next year, will rank as one the most spectacular discoveries in physics in the past century.

Tantalising glimpses of dark matter particles were picked up by highly sensitive detectors at the bottom of the Soudan mine in Minnesota, the scientists said.

Dan Bauer, head of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), said the group had spotted two particles with all the expected characteristics of dark matter. There is a one in four chance that the result is due to some other effect in the underground detectors, Bauer told a seminar at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago.

Has dark matter finally been detected? | Science | The Guardian

Fermilab are upgrading the detector next year and that will definitively confirm whether or not they've really found dark matter particles.

Exciting times!

Mukatsuku · 12-18-2009, 09:54 AM

here's a photo of it

**Psyke Phaeton** · 12-19-2009, 08:20 AM

Slashdot Science Story | Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected

infiniview Merit · 12-21-2009, 12:28 PM

On occasion I have thought of dark matter playing a supporting role to the visible universe.
Sort of like it being the rest of the iceberg.

In a different spin dark matter particles could be some slight evidence of the theoretical parallel universes.

12-18-2009, 09:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
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12-21-2009, 12:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
infiniview Merit fractal networker Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: seattle Posts: 1,296 My Mood: SL Join Date: 4-27-06 Business: Texture Arts	On occasion I have thought of dark matter playing a supporting role to the visible universe. Sort of like it being the rest of the iceberg. In a different spin dark matter particles could be some slight evidence of the theoretical parallel universes. __________________ Texture Arts Headquarters http://slurl.com/secondlife/puea/126/10/60/

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