[lbryce]

From the article;
That's right - we've either discovered a new particle, a new force, or the universe is fundamentally flawed. And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven't yet discovered, and have therefore labeled "dark."

The full scientific article via Physical Review Letters as linked to in the article is available to subscribers only

[DocRock]

I'm still waiting from someone to explain this symmetry of hexagonal rings on Saturn's poles. Talk about violations of symmetry!

[ontap]

Funny thing after I read this I remember thinking the same thing the other day and pondering on whether I should publish it or not. I finally opted to go get a banana split instead. Obviously I made the right decision!!!

[RegulatorCountry]

>And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven't yet discovered, and have therefore labeled "dark."

Here there be dragons.

[STD]

Please, can anyone tell me whats to fear from the European collider? What do people think?

[Doc Savage]

That’s nothing! I’ve discovered a ‘dark matter’ black hole, something I’ve dubbed an ‘Asshole’ living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!

[r9etb]

Boone:

MiniBooNE:

[Larry Lucido]

In my parallel universe, we are asymmetric but equal.

[bunkerhill7]

“sterile neutrinos” cannot reproduce.
Ergo they will eventually become extinct.

[r9etb]

"The simplest explanation involves adding new neutrino-like particles, or sterile neutrinos, which do not have the normal weak interactions."

Well, no.... the simplest explanations involve hardware, software, or measurement errors.

Just saying....

[InternetTuffGuy]

I wish they’d just bring back “ether” and be done with it.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

They really don’t have a clue.

[FourPeas]

Hmm, rather sounds like Kepler playing with spheres.

[Boogieman]

Can I be the first to propose that there may be, in fact, 31 flavors of neutrinos?

[adorno]

The article was very scientific because it had a lot of “maybes” and “perhaps” and “could bes” and “mights” in it.

[ColoCdn]

Weird stuff that I don’t understand, but still like to read about it - reminder to read later.
Thanks.

[techcor]

io9.com seems to be going through a “boo-hoo” Republicans won phase which I hope they get through because I usually like them.

[Wuli]

"That's right - we've either discovered a new particle, a new force, or the universe is fundamentally flawed. And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven't yet discovered, and have therefore labeled 'dark.'"

By their own words shall they be known.

By the statement quoted above, the scientist who spoke those words demonstrated that the supreme intellectual element of so many scientists today is ARROGANCE.

One of the greatest truths about human science, and most particularly about physics, is that each major advance that was achieved in trying to solve a major question, while answering that question as best as we were able to answer it, opened a window on the whole subject to reveal we had gained many more questions than we knew to ask before we found our solution.

We will never with our puny brains and human imperfections completely understand "all the matter we haven't yet discovered" because at every step of the way we will always find there are elements of "matter" deeper, more complex, more unimaginable than we either knew to look or even guessed at. The "cosmic egg" will be forever unfolding to us, never "solved" in any final sense.

[hinckley buzzard]

The title is a bit misleading. It has long been hypothesized that an "asymmetry" in the universe is what allows it to exist in anything like the present form. The math apparently requires this, but perhaps the physical explanation/verification has been long in coming.