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Missing Matter... Still Missing

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it's-zero dept.

squidfrog writes "Nature.com, PhysicsWeb, and the BBC all report on the latest results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search. 'The most powerful search yet for the Universe's missing matter has come up empty handed, contradicting an earlier study that claimed to have seen new particles.' 'A favoured theory is that the dark matter consists of Wimps (weakly interacting massive particles) about a thousand times more massive than a proton, one of the particles found in an atom's nucleus... on the rare occasions a Wimp strikes an ordinary atom, the effect should be noticeable.' 'Writing in the Physical Review Letters, the team says that while a detection has yet to occur, there is now a better idea of how much dark matter must exist.' They 'hope to improve the sensitivity of the experiment by another factor of 20 over the next few years.' What's 20 times 0? And don't tell me zero!"

15 of 370 comments (clear)

  1. Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Postage

  2. What is next... by thing2b · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So don't tell me, First they think there is dark matter, latter maybe white matter, then they will think that Bush matters.

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    1. Re:What is next... by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Somehow, I think the search for WIMPs will be more successful than the search for WMDs.

  3. I'm rich, biatch by Mikeface · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Soudan crewz in da hizouse yo.

  4. Re:WARNING: IP ADDRESS KARMA POLICY NOW IN EFFECT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You hurt my feelings, faggat :(

  5. Re:WARNING: IP ADDRESS KARMA POLICY NOW IN EFFECT by networkGhettoWhore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you serious? Is there anything that can be done about it?

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  6. Re:WARNING: IP ADDRESS KARMA POLICY NOW IN EFFECT by GNAA+Goat-See · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pater crushed his laptop with a bat.

  7. this pisses me off too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My posts are generally modded up, but if I get one or two downmods all of a sudden my subnet is banned from posting. It doesn't take 10 or 20 for this to happen either. It's pretty aggravating, but really it's Slashdot that loses out when I have something to contribute but can't.

    What really pisses me off though is spending 15 or 20 minutes researching and posting something to clarify a conversation and Slashdot rejecting it. Then I have to ssh into one of my off-site servers, connect to Slashdot with lynx, and cut and paste everything I just type. A lot of the time I just say 'fuck it' and just don't come back to the site for a couple days.

    1. Re:this pisses me off too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      the new bans are permanent, not the typical 2-3 day shit of old.

    2. Re:this pisses me off too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That would explain this. The editors have been modding every one of my posts down (they already start at -1.) Some are modded down fucking twice. I have had two temp bans in the last week. They started as soon as they implemented the one post per day. How the fuck do they expect me to remind you cock-smoking teabaggers?

      SCO$699FeeTroll.

  8. You cannot route to /dev/null by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    # ll /dev/null
    -rw-rw-rw root root 1, 3 May 2000 /dev/null
    # route add -net 66.35.250.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 /dev/null
    /dev/null: device not found

  9. I, for one, by slashrogue · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    welcome our new wimpy overlords.

    Er?

  10. yes, yes, yes by rozz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oh finally ... it's been such a long time since i had this feeling that something's missing from my life .. poor me, i always thought that would be some million $ from my bank account .. or lately, some /. karma

    btw, when they find this wimps i plan to sue them and get some compensation for the years of stress they made me endure!

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  11. Found it! by jelle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I found the missing matter.

    It was in the black hole. Ask beavis and butt-head for details.

    There is one problem though: It doesn't matter.

    Maybe it's broken?

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  12. So.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So....nothing has changed then.

    I remember about 2 or 3 months ago my IP got a 72 hour ban for "excessive negative posting" (i.e. a flamewar that got downmodded).
    This isn't anything new. Nor is it unwanted. I don't want to enable any more crapflooding than I have to.

    You're a retard.