Dark Matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Data

cylonlover writes "Recently the media has been saturated with overly-hyped reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer may have detected dark matter. These claims may have some justification if the word 'may' is shouted, but they rest on a number of really major assumptions and guesses, some of which are on weak and shifting soil. So just what was seen in the experiment, and what are the possible explanations?"

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Never trust...

[Anonymous Coward]

Never trust an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer with important discoveries. I wouldn't even start considering it useful until it hit Beta.