Astrophysicists have postulated the "weakly interacting massive" one of these, or WIMP
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Physics Confronts Its Heart of Darkness - Scientific American  Aug 31, 2016 ... So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. ... Called WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), these subatomic shrinking ... One of the latest null results in the search for WIMPs came from the Large ... cherished WIMP models, raising fresh fears that the long-postulated particles might be a...
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Weakly Interacting Massive Particle - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy  In particle physics and astrophysics , weakly interacting massive particles , or ... WIMPs are considered one of the main candidates for cold dark matter, the .... Larger ton-scale expansions of these xenon detectors have been approved ...... minimally coupled, real scalar field postulated to account for the inferred dark matter .
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Weakly interacting massive particles - Wikipedia  In particle physics and astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, is a ... WIMPs are considered one of the main candidates for cold dark matter, the ... The particles that have little interaction with normal matter, such as neutrinos, are ... These neutrinos may then travel to the Earth to be detected in one of the...
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Dark matter: What's the matter? : Nature : Nature Research  Sep 29, 2016 ... And could these black holes be the dark matter that holds galaxies together? ... Astrophysicist Timothy Brandt thinks that he has found a fatal flaw with Bird's theory. ... Bird's theory was based on the fact that no one had yet ruled out larger ... was made up of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).
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Physicists Step Up Exotic Search for the Universe's Missing Mass ...  May 26, 1992 ... THE strangeness of the universe obliges astrophysicists to heed the ... All the visible stars and galaxies, scientists now believe, account for less than 1 percent of the mass of ... as axions and WIMP's, for weakly interacting massive particles. .... These postulated small dark stars have been named Massive...
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WMAP's Introduction to Cosmology - Wilkinson Microwave ...  now very cold cosmic microwave background radiation which still pervades the universe and is visible to microwave detectors ... Because the universe has a finite age (~13.7 billion years) we can only see a finite distance out .... One of the central challenges in cosmology today is to determine the relative and total densities...
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mass. Neutrinos - Berkeley Center for Theorectical Physics  I was at the conference in Takayama, near Kamioka, in 1998 when the ... These "atmospheric neutrinos" are mostly muon neutrinos and interact very weakly with matter ... converted or "oscillated" to tau neutrinos as they passed through the Earth. ... be travelling slower than the speed of light and therefore must have a mass.
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jeoparty/testfile4.html at master  mpobrien/jeoparty  GitHub  <td id="clue_DJ_5_2" class="clue_text">"Do I dare disturb the universe?", maybe like this cosmic explosion theory first proposed in the 1920s</td>. </tr>. </table>.
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feynman-novideos.ppt - EECS at UC Berkeley  Manhattan Project ... Made a breakthrough in the physics of the superfluidity of super cold liquid helium ... Investigated Challenger accident in 1986; Feynman passed away on Feb. ... that they do other things that a few other humans do (like playing bongo drums) is insulting to me. I am human enough to tell you to go to hell.
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NASA Technology Views Birth of the Universe | NASA  Mar 17, 2014 ... The BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole used a specialized array of ... The technology was key to detecting the effects of gravitational waves associated ... We know this produces another type of waves called density waves, but we ..... the sun's infrared radiation in the material that makes up the sunshield.
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Think this is Amazing ? Think you can choose the best pin from 7 ...  Ren Milot brings his boundless energy and years of communications to ... Cosmos "The Hands of God" Bad News for Atheists: Scientists Say Universe Shouldn.
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More Than a Star, Less Than a Galaxy - StarDate's Black Hole ...  1963: Maarten Schmidt. More Than a Star, Less Than a Galaxy. Seen through a backyard telescope, 3c273 is a puny sight. It looks like a faint star in the...
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Astronomers Catch Mysterious Radio Blast From the Distant ...  Jan 19, 2015 ... Called fast radio bursts, these extreme pulses of energy last for just a fraction of ... The short answer is, scientists still don't know. ... If we see those stars at night is just telling us life exist in the universe around us. .... Well, it seems to me like we sent out deep-sapce radio waves in the hopes .... Weird, isn't it?
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jeopardy/2459_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 10. SCIENTIFIC AMERICANS | Vera Rubin & W. Kent Ford used this name for the invisible substance whose pull holds galaxies together | Dark matter.
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Observatories Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum  Radio waves can make it through the Earth's atmosphere without significant ... (and allow the telescope to detect the faintest of heat signals from distant objects),...
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Profile: Vera Rubin and Dark Matter  She teamed up with Kent Ford, an astronomer who had developed an ... Rubin and Ford used the spectrometer to spread out the spectrum of light ... of the mass in galaxies, and therefore in the observable universe, is invisible and unidentified. ... matterabout ten times more than the visible matterto bind it together.
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The elements of the universe point to creation - creation.com  Did big bang nucleosynthesis successfully predict the cosmic H/He ... ratio and temperature of the cosmic background radiation (CBR) are supposed to match ... the various isotopes of different elements are repeatedly found in similar ratios in ... and could exist in mysterious forms capable of supporting biological systems on...
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Columns on Science and Religion - Richard Lewis - Tparents.org  Mar 28, 2000 ... columns that were written for the Unification News over the last ten years. ..... It is not the first time, by any means, that science has been used to promote a philosophical agenda, ..... think you can claim them to be a part of the Principle! ...... The universe cooled below this GUT temperature a billionth billionth.
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Hubble Views a Galaxy on Edge | NASA  Astronomers are able to analyze the distribution of different types of stars within the ... to have been caused by a merger with a smaller, gas-rich galaxy  while the .... Astronomers suspect that spiral galaxies like NGC 24 and the Milky Way are ..... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered two tiny dwarf galaxies that...
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Stellar Death - University of Oregon  The infalling layers collapse so fast that they `bounce' off the iron core at close to the speed of light. ... The energy released during this explosion is so immense that the star will out shine ... Supernova can be seen in nearby galaxies, about one every 100 years ... Water contains lots of protons in the form of hydrogen atoms.
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Winner of SOHO's Birthday Image Contest | NASA  Dec 11, 2015 ... There have been many theories on how this happens, but scientists have ... from, in turn strengthening our understanding of our solar neighborhood's early history. .... the solar wind, and the Local Hot Bubble isn't a good explanation either. ..... ESA and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO,...