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.

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May I suggest

[justthinkit]

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.