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The Hardware That Searches For Dark Matter (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: Deep in a gold mine in South Dakota, the Large Underground Xenon experiment waits in the darkness for a tiny flash of light that signals that dark matter actually exists. So far we theorize that it does exist, and have gone to great lengths to build hardware to detect dark matter. Very cold, very pure liquid xenon sits waiting for a dark matter particle to strike the nucleus of a xenon molecule, producing a distinct pattern of photons through scintillation. An array of photomultiplier tubes detect the photons, whose pattern is processed by FPGAs on custom boards connected using HDMI. The experiment has generated a list of properties not possessed by dark matter; running for several years no evidence of the particles interacting with the xenon have been found. But when the data collection concludes this year, a much larger version of the impressive hardware will be built.
Maybe they don't exist and your theory a shit.
In any case I hope it leads to deeper understanding.
Some very smart people are coming to the realization that dark matter doesn't exist. I for one think it's more likely that dark matter doesn't exist than that it does, but yet is somehow both evenly distributed and undetectable.
http://www.space.com/4554-scientists-dark-matter-exist.html
It's a lot more likely that dark matter and dark energy are just math errors that don't take into account proper universe/space expansion and doesn't understand how gravity really works.
Care to show your math on that? We can then compare it to all the scientists who already did the math a few million times showing the same results you say are wrong.
There is even a Nobel prize or three in it for you.
Why do they need fast FPGA detectors, if they never detect anything? Really slow detectors would be just as good at generating no results.
If there are in fact no results, then they need to be sure of it. Hence fast detectors and FPGA processors are used.
A failed experiment can still be an important one. The Michelson-Morley experiment was a failure, yet it started a scientific revolution that led to Einstein's theory of relativity.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Yes. The idea is that Dark Matter particles interact via the same force (the Weak Force) as neutrinos.
Everything else you wrote is spot on, but WIMPs have been ruled out as truly Weakly interacting (where Weak with a capital W means "by the exchange of W or Z bosons) for almost a decade now. The original Weak Miracle posited WIMPs to be truly Weakly interacting, but now they are held to be sub-Weak, interacting most likely through Higgs exchange, but we kept the name. Really we should rename them wIMPs at this point.
Also I hate whoever decided to use Weak and Strong as formal names for those respective interactions.