Recently the media has been saturated with overly-hyped reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may have detected dark matter. These claims may have some justification if the word "may" is shouted, but they rest on a number...
Recently the media has been saturated with overly-hyped reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) may have detected dark matter. These claims may have some justification if the word "may" is shouted, but they rest on a number of really major assumptions and guesses, some of which are on weak and shifting soil. So just what was seen in the experiment, and what are the possible explanations?..
Continue Reading Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer data
Section: Science
Tags: Antimatter,
Big Bang Theory,
CERN,
Dark Matter,
International Space Station,
MIT,
NASA,
Particle physics,
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