Dark matter hinted at again at Cresst experiment (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Scientists may have seen more hints of the dark matter purported to make up a majority of the mass in the Universe.

Researchers at the Cresst experiment in Italy say they have spotted 67 events in their detectors that may be caused by dark matter particles called Wimps.

The finds must be reconciled with other experiments that have recently hinted at the detection of Wimps.

The results were revealed at the Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics meeting in Germany on Tuesday.

They have also been posted on the physics website Arxiv, complementing the data of other "direct detection" experiments.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14811580

[laconicsax]

1. K&R Neat stuff.

[necso]

2. Hint? That tease!

(Meant solely as light humor. I intend no reference whatsoever -- direct, indirect, or by innuendo (or suchlike) -- to any parties or persons, real, virtual or (entirely) imaginary; living, deceased or yet-to-be. And I checked the definition ("a person or thing{!} that teases") to make sure that "tease" didn't by any (listed) common (noun form) definition especially relate to any particular person, thing, or group: ie, beyond teasers.)

(More light humor. The future, I suspect, is going to call for more humor (better to laugh than cry... generally) -- and obviously I'm not the person for it.)

[Dov Henis]

3. Dark Matter? LHC Chases Its Tail...

LHC Chases Its Tail

An LHC thinking break is required in the 20th/21st-centuries Technology Culture maze rat race.
(Nov 25 2009)

A. Main purposes of the LHC (its first high-energy collisions to be attempted early 2010)

Expected to address most fundamental questions of physics, that are said to block further progress in understanding the cosmic evolution. Planned-built with intention of testing predictions of high-energy physics, mainly:

- Existence of the hypothesized Higgs boson(s), for completing the Standard Model, to explain the “origin of mass” in the universe,
- Do all known particles have supersymmetric partners, for clearing up the “mystery of dark matter”,
- Are there extra dimensions as postulated by models inspired by string theory.

B. Let's get off the 20th/21st centuries technology culture maze rat race, and take a thinking break:

The study of cosmic evolution concerns and affects the study and comprehension of each and every subject in the universe. Cosmic evolution originated with gravity, which originated with singularity which was ALL the mass of the universe, and with inflation which was the start of the since then ongoing reconversion of mass to energy.

Progress in understanding the cosmic evolution starts with Thinking. Every experiment on the course of its study starts with Thinking. Per my thinking (small t, of course)
E=Total represents the essence of cosmic evolution.

E = Energy content of the universe, was all in mass format at singularity, when D was 0 for 10^-35 seconds.
m = mass content of the universe, was ALL the mass of the universe 10^-35 seconds, reconverting to E (as mD) since the Big Bang, driving the galaxies clusters apart since then, increasing D fueled by decreasing m.
D = total distance of mass travel in all spatial directions, from the point of Big-Bang, of singularity's energy-mass superposition.

E of the universe is constant, and the variables of E are the extents of its mass formats and their density in the universe. This is the archetype of configuration for the origin of mass. Production of an amount of m in a one-shot process takes an amount of E that renders D zero. In a one-shot process a superduper squeeze to overcome D is required to achieve an E-m superposition. This is to be attempted at the LHC, with the highest amount of energy now feasible for humanity, which may be a diminutively minuscule amount for the purpose.

Cosmic evolution is the archetype of quantum mechanics in physics, of biological evolution which is the quantum mechanics of biology, of the evolution of every process. All evolutions are E/m processes, strivings to postpone the ongoing reconversion of mass into energy.

The LHC high-energy collisions will most probably advance our comprehension of it even if, as I expect, it will fail to demonstrate that the origin of mass in the universe depends on the hypothesized Higgs boson(s) that do not exist and will fail to demonstrate the existence of dark matter or dark energy that do not exist as per the above EmD relationship. I avoid the "extra dimensions" since they are beyond my simple-minded comprehension. IMO they are religious concepts. Per my commonsensical scientific concept of cosmic evolution everything started with The Inflation and will eventually, when nearly all mass-fuel is depleted and expansion is overcome by gravity, revert back to singularity and …..

Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com/

[tama]

4. Math

Saying that extra dimensions are religious concepts would seem to mean that you identify mathematics with religion - because you undersand neither. :)

Physics is not and does not need to be "commonsensical", it's just as is - Quantum electrodynamics which explains fotons and electrons and their interactions is both beautifull and very weird theory. A theory that succeeds combining QED with nuclear physics and gravity - and measurement problem and consciousness! - will be much more wierd than QED.