Friday, December 18, 2009

A dim view of dark matter

I was very excited to find that scientists think they’ve detected dark matter. But then I saw this:

The tests are being carried out in an underground laboratory in a defunct mine in northern Minnesota.

Now, I don’t want to be a killjoy, especially at this time of year, but what with the tests being so far underground, might it not be that what they’ve detected is just ordinary matter… in the dark?

2 comments:

DavidMWW said...

Or maybe coal?

jams o donnell said...

Haha. Seriously this is something I just can't get my head around but then physics was not my strong suit