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Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment

Posted by samzenpus on from the look-what-we-found dept.

physburn writes "The BBC is reporting recent results from the Cresst dark matter search in Italy. Between 2009 and 2011, Cresst have seen 67 events, a 4 sigma detection of dark matter particles with a mass of either around 15 GeV or 25 GeV. The results are near those previous results from DAMA and Cogent. So has dark matter finally been found, and if so what is it?"

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  1. Not yet. by Claws+Of+Doom · · Score: 4, Informative

    4 sigma detection != (officially) found. You need 5 sigma for "discovery" status. The BBC have a good explanatory piece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14811580

    1. Re:Not yet. by Claws+Of+Doom · · Score: 2, Informative

      I am an idiot.

    2. Re:Not yet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

      I am an idiot.

      No. You had to get fancy with your "Frist Post" is all. If you kept it simple, "Ah! That's highly significant!"

      And when someone posted something that called you on it and asked what you mean by that. All you had to do was post, "Ah, Bach."

      That's all. And would've gotten at least a +3 out of it! (Mods always blow a point or two on the first comments that look intelligent which means your fist post may get a +5 something or another with a zillion comments calling you an idiot while your response [calling yourself an "idiot"] will be ignored)

  2. Great introductions to dark matter by overshoot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Starts with a Bang is an astrophysics professor's coverage of dark matter and what we know about it (including why we believe it makes up most of the matter in the universe.)

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