A Whisper, Perhaps, From the Universe’s Dark Side

Is this the dark side speaking?

A concatenation of puzzling results from an alphabet soup of satellites and experiments has led a growing number of astronomers and physicists to suspect that they are getting signals from a shadow universe of dark matter that makes up a quarter of creation but has eluded direct detection until now.

Maybe.

“Nobody really knows what’s going on,” said Gordon Kane, a theorist at the University of Michigan. Physicists caution that there could still be a relatively simple astronomical explanation for the recent observations.

But the nature of this dark matter is one of the burning issues of science. Identifying it would point the way to a deeper understanding of the laws of nature and the Einsteinian dream of a unified theory of physics.

The last few weeks have seen a blizzard of papers trying to explain the observations in terms of things like “minimal dark matter” or “exciting dark matter,” or “hidden valley” theory, and to suggest how to look for them in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, set to begin operation again outside Geneva next summer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/science/25dark.html?th&emc=th

the religion articles, but not science.

Some advanced race created a Dyson Sphere around a neighboring solar system and dumped all their intergalactic junk there. There's where all the missing matter of the universe is.

TlalocW

Articles like this make me giggle.

Will they bring us salad dressing???

:P :P :P

This is why we can't have nice things.