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Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-news-for-warp-core-engineers dept.

sciencehabit writes "In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA picked up an unusual signal: a spike in antimatter particles whizzing through space. The discovery, controversial at the time, hinted that physicists might be coming close to detecting dark matter, an enigmatic substance thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe. Now, new data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm the spike (abstract)."

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  1. Dark matter or antimatter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm confused, is this about antimatter or dark matter?

    1. Re:Dark matter or antimatter? by geekoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

      (not that that will stop me from commenting..)

      and that is what's wrong with the world.

      I don't know jack abut the subject, but I'll be damned if that stopped me from commenting like I'm an expert.

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