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Physicists Identify Possible New Particle Behind Dark Matter
sciencehabit writes: Like cops tracking the wrong person, physicists seeking to identify dark matter — the mysterious stuff whose gravity appears to bind the galaxies — may have been stalking the wrong particle. In fact, a particle with some properties opposite to those of physicists' current favorite dark matter candidate — the weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — would do just as good a job at explaining the stuff, a quartet of theorists says. Hypothetical strongly interacting massive particles — or SIMPs — would also better account for some astrophysical observations, they argue.
I always thought that WIMP (Windows IIS MsSQL PHP) was the opposite of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP)?
If the force carriers for ordinary matter are called bosons...
Then would the force carriers for SIMPs be called...SIMPsons?
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
May I suggest a more generic name that doesn't have to be changed every five minutes?
Physically Interacting Massive Particles
The name will probably be shortened at some point.
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I think that dark matter is made of a yet to be discovered material called math-errorium. You'll never guess why it hasn't been discovered yet.