Promises, Promises …
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:33 pm
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-gravitati ... -dark.html
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Still ...
VERY EXPENSIVE, LIKELY EMPTY PROMISES ...
... that are bound to keep a generation (at least) of astrophysicists raking in the money hand over fist.
Just saying ...
Oh boy … a new gnome! I can see the astrophysicists are jumping up and down at the prospect … especially since finding this “new kind” of dark matter is bound to be quite expensive ... and elusive. And here’s what the new gnome is …Gravitational wave scientists set their sights on dark matter
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In a study published today in Nature, a team led by scientists from Cardiff University's Gravity Exploration Institute has taken the first step towards this goal by using the instruments, known as laser interferometers, to look for a new kind of dark matter for the very first time.
Oooooo ... what better gnome than an *invisible* *field*!A recent theory says that dark matter is actually something called a scalar field, which would behave as invisible waves bouncing around galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
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Oh ... rats!Though the team were unsuccessful in making any sort of detection in this new study,
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Sound familiar? It's the same old same old.they say they are making important first strides in terms of introducing this technology to dark matter searches and have already made progress in terms of narrowing down certain parameters for future studies.
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"We have definitively ruled out some theories that say dark matter has certain properties, so future searches now have a better idea of what to look for," said Vermeulen.
"We believe these new techniques have the true potential to discover dark matter at some point in the future."
VERY EXPENSIVE, LIKELY EMPTY PROMISES ...
... that are bound to keep a generation (at least) of astrophysicists raking in the money hand over fist.
Just saying ...