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23% Chance Evidence of Dark Matter Has Been Found

Here’s an interesting article from the BBC. Looks like they may have (23% probability) detected Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPS.  These are one of several particles that scientists believe could make up Dark Matter.

Personally I find Dark Matter very interesting.  As the theory goes, everything we can see, detect, or otherwise interact with makes up only 5% of the universe.  Some days I wonder what good finding dark mater would do, since we can’t interact with it. But then I think, what if we could interact with it, once we understood it.

Here’s some completely unscientific what-ifs that will hopefully get you excited about this stuff.  What-if dark matter could:

  • be the key to pinpointing the center of the universe?
  • could be the answer to the question of why?  What caused the Big Bang?  Has there been more than one?  Are there multiple universes?
  • be turned into ordinary matter?
  • be turned into ordinary energy?
  • could propel spacecraft much faster than the speed of light?

The potential upside certainly deserves further investigation.  Even if I’m just making up a bunch of unrealistic unscientific Original Star Trek Style nonsense.

Without further ado, here’s the article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8508662.stm

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