Race is on to detect dark matter

[DesertFox]

In deep underground laboratories around the globe, a high-tech race is on to spot dark matter, the invisible cosmic glue that's believed to keep galaxies from spinning apart.

Whoever discovers the nature of dark matter would solve one of modern science's greatest mysteries and be a shoo-in for the Nobel Prize. Yet it's more than just a brainy exercise. Deciphering dark matter - along with a better understanding of another mysterious force called dark energy - could help reveal the fate of the universe.

Previous hunts for the hypothetical matter have turned up nothing, but that has not deterred some two dozen research teams from plumbing the darkness of idled mines and tunnel shafts for a fleeting glimpse.

Dark-matter detecting machines today are more powerful than previous generations, but even the best has failed so far to catch a whiff of the stuff. Many teams are now building bigger detectors or toying with novel technologies to aid in the hunt.

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[DesertFox]

Then there's the politics of dark matter. When they finally find some, will it be dark enough? And what determines dark versus light matter, anyhow? Does it follow the one-Planck rule? or is it that the redder a light beam gets, the darker it is until it Dopplers clear down into blackness? And how cold is this stuff, anyway? Below absolute zero? Above absolute hot? :question:

[PrezLeefun]

LMAO!

[Franko]

The search for dark matter has become more frantic since http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060905104549.htm

the Big Bang FAILED the shadow test.

[DesertFox]

If I understand all this aright, and I think I do: The Big Bang can't be true anyway since the presence of Dark Matter gives the universe about 10 times more matter than it had before, and the amount it had before was just right for the Big Bang to account for.

[Franko]

My understanding has been, from what I've read in 'pop' literature on 'pop' cosmology, was that the consensus is there should be more matter in the universe, that some of it is missing, hence the search for the dark stuff.

How much is needed or is too much, heh . . .

The Big Bang can't be true for many reasons, the shadow test failure is just confirmation of one of them.

[DeclinetoState]

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