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From the article: "The new AMS results may ultimately help scientists narrow in on the origin and features of dark matter" So yet another link-bait headline.
by jeroen94704 12y ago
From the article: "The new AMS results may ultimately help scientists narrow in on the origin and features of dark matter"
So yet another link-bait headline.
- simon_ 12y agoMaybe, but I would wait to hear from a physicist. When I was a student, one of the most important papers one year was about a dark matter (WIMP) detector that failed to find anything, thus "trimming the parameter space" for what the particles might look like. If this is a genuine clue, it's probably very exciting.
- joshvm 12y ago> Nearly 85 percent of the universe is made of dark matter It's a bit ambiguous too: 85% is the proportion of the total mass made up of dark matter. Normally we'd say that 26% of the universe is dark matter, 5% is baryonic matter and the rest is dark energy.