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The Search for Dark Matter Continues, More Than a Mile Underground
Popular Mechanics ^ | May 9, 2018 | Jay Bennett

Posted on 05/10/2018 7:40:41 AM PDT by C19fan

For decades, astrophysicists have pondered the odd movements of galaxies across the cosmos. The visible matter of the universe appears to be tugged around by an invisible counterpart, material that does not interact with surrounding matter in any observable way save gravity: dark matter. Refined measurements have since led scientists to hypothesize that 85 percent of all the matter in the universe is dark matter, while only 15 percent accounts for you, me, the planet, the stars, and everything else we can see.

It's a satisfactory explanation for our observations that has one major problem: a dark matter particle has never been detected directly. But the search for elusive dark matter is about to get a shot in the arm, and rather than looking for evidence of the substance written in the stars, scientists are constructing ambitious experiments deep underground.

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, partnered with Stanford University and multiple additional labs and universities around the world, just announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has approved funding and construction a of dark matter experiment 6,800 feet underground in an old nickel mine. The project, called the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, will use supercooled silicon and germanium crystals in an attempt to detect dark matter particles as they pass through our planet. The experiment is expected to be 50 times more sensitive than previous efforts, and it is slated to come online in the early 2020s.

(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: gravity; matter; stringtheory
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WIMPs the Beta particle of the universe.
1 posted on 05/10/2018 7:40:41 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Dark matter matters.


2 posted on 05/10/2018 7:41:22 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: C19fan

This isn’t new. I saw a discovery channel show years ago where they were doing dark matter experiments deep underground.


3 posted on 05/10/2018 7:42:55 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

I read about those. So far nothing detected.


4 posted on 05/10/2018 7:43:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

It’s got to be somewhere...


5 posted on 05/10/2018 7:43:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

If you’re 8000 feet underground, and the lights aren’t on, all the matter around you is dark matter.


6 posted on 05/10/2018 7:47:52 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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It’s got to be somewhere...

No it doesn't. This is the latest example of physicists saying "trust us, we're smarter than you" without any evidence to back up their claims. Gravity has a multiplying effect in planetary and stellar motion, so it is the simplest answer (Occam's Razor). They may be correct and there is a substance called "Dark Matter", but for a collective group of people who shun the thought of an Almighty God, they are rather hypocritical to tell us to just have faith.

7 posted on 05/10/2018 7:50:32 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: DungeonMaster

All matter matters.


8 posted on 05/10/2018 7:53:15 AM PDT by AU72
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To: DungeonMaster

I liked that show. Sad it got cancelled.


9 posted on 05/10/2018 7:53:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan
Well it makes sense looking for dark matter underground, where it's dark :)
If they don't find any dark matter, would they consider other theories of gravity, I've heard there are some that describe the cosmos quite well without the injection of dark matter or other fudge factors.

10 posted on 05/10/2018 7:54:53 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Arm-waving is so much more fun when you get government grants!


11 posted on 05/10/2018 7:55:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: C19fan

They had to invent the words “dark matter” and “dark energy” because their sacred equations don’t explain reality!

Idiots! your equations are wrong! find equations that explain reality and you’ll be really smart.


12 posted on 05/10/2018 7:59:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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Dark matter has been identified for quite a while now. Credit goes to Dr. Randell Mills, founder and CEO of Brilliant Light Power, for his paradigm-shifting technology that generates lower-energy states of hydrogen, along with huge amounts of power, the characterization studies of which precisely match the signatures of dark matter.


13 posted on 05/10/2018 8:00:07 AM PDT by DrainBamage
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I wonder how much a vat of 10 tons of liquid Xenon costs..


14 posted on 05/10/2018 8:02:03 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: I want the USA back

Yes, their sacred equations ARE wrong precisely because they made it all up, adding new variables and dimensions of reality (up to 13 now, I believe - I lost track). It took the genius of Dr. Randell Mills to find the right equations - closed-form equations with no variables, accurate up to 8 decimal places, the limit of measurements - that accurately describe reality.

Here, you can look it up and download Dr. Mills’ Grand Unified Theory based on classical physics, and use his modeling software that gives the exact solutions to properties of atoms, molecules, and compounds:

www.brilliantlightpower.com


15 posted on 05/10/2018 8:17:18 AM PDT by DrainBamage
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To: C19fan

A real scientist would question the basic theory that requires invisible undetectable phenomena to work. Otherwise it’s indistinguishable from theology.


16 posted on 05/10/2018 8:29:42 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: circlecity

It is pretty dark a mile underground so it is a good start.
Keep digging.


17 posted on 05/10/2018 8:34:51 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rjsimmon

i know- i was just making a funny


18 posted on 05/10/2018 8:39:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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It was funny. I just had to vent. Mea culpa...


19 posted on 05/10/2018 8:43:00 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: DrainBamage
Credit goes to Dr. Randell Mills, founder and CEO of Brilliant Light Power

You're kidding, right?

20 posted on 05/10/2018 8:45:10 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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