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Scientists Hedge on Dark Matter Discovery

Scientists Hedge on Dark Matter Discovery

April 3, 2013 By News Droid 2 Comments

Today NASA held a news conference to announce the results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS).

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is an advanced cosmic-ray detector designed to seek out signs of antimatter and elusive dark matter from its perch on the backbone-like main truss of the International Space Station (ISS). More than 200 scientists representing 16 countries and 56 institutions are part of the science team, which is led by Nobel laureate Samuel Ting, a physicist at MIT.

The AMS was deployed to the ISS from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in May 2011 during the STS–134 mission commanded by Arizona’s very own Mark Kelly.

Dr. Ting was reluctant to say definitively that the AMS had discovered Dark Matter but did seem to indicate that further experiments and data may lead to that revelation in the future. Dr. Ting did say that the data and statistics gathered by the AMS were only 1% accurate which is comparable to the experiments previously performed by other methods.

The conference lasted just over half an hour and was broadcast by NASA TV from Washington, D.C. as well as a live link to Dr. Ting in Geneva.

Please visit Space.com or NASA.gov for further details.

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  1. Natalia Kiriushcheva says

    April 3, 2013 at 6:04 pm

    That is a beginning of confirmation for the string theory and BB too:
    http://gravityattraction.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/boltzmann-brain-discovery/

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  2. DanVzare says

    April 4, 2013 at 3:56 am

    Here’s what I’ve got to say about Black Matter. It’s something you can never detect, but it keeps the universe working. You can never prove it exists, but it is why everything is the way it is. I don’t believe in Black Matter because it sounds way too similar to god.

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