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Very interesting! Thanks for clearing up this misconception. So what are all these "looking for dark matter" experiments actually doing?
by ggambetta 7y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for clearing up this misconception.
So what are all these "looking for dark matter" experiments actually doing?
- fhars 7y agoThey are looking for dark matter, obviously. It is still the most parsimonious explanation that there is some kind of gravitationally interacting stuff out there that we just cannot detect with our current measurement methods. It is the simplest hypothesis that can explain all of the available observations without adding too many epicycles to our otherwise well tested theories.
- superqd 7y agoSome experiments are literally looking for new types of matter that could play a role in interacting with observable/known matter than could potentially explain the overall observations. Some folks are also tinkering with the models/equations themselves to explore how to better model the universe. See Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an example.