Hadron Collider to hunt for dark matter

and there was me thinking they hadn't finished with the Higgs-Boson yet... They haven't at all, just like you said. The findings are merely acceptable indications that further analysis/experiments are warranted under scientific standards.

dang $1.8 billion. tats like my families money time 1000x

There's no limit to what science can do and find new discoveries, like the Higgs-Boson particle to been so important to the development of all matter in the universe, they called it the "God" particle (over the top). We should find what consists of dark matter, thus nothing will prove what made up "God" is matter out of...nothing.

I don't see the specifics of this news article looking through what Physicists are saying. I imaging they'll start trying to make WIMPs, and they've figured out a good way to detect them. Definitely a tremendously important piece of the puzzle (IMO as big if not bigger than Higgs). It might or might not provide insight into formation of spacetime curvatures (i.e. why space warps). I want to stress once again that the Large Hadron Collider will make thousands of different experiments for thousands of different research projects. It did NOT get created just to find the 1 particle.

dang $1.8 billion. tats like my families money time 1000x Your family has $1.8 million? Must be nice!

This is going to be really cool, especially due to the famous WIMP miracle. My astronomy professor explained that astronomers and mathematicians/physicists rarely draw the same conclusions. In the case of dark matter, astronomical observations and theoretical mathematics drew the same conclusions for the percentage dark matter in galaxies. This was an amazing feat for astrophysics. I am curious to see how this will work in the LHC. This is the first major thing that brings the LHC closer to what I regard as "real" astronomy. I think this is something that can really be related to humanity and ... [More]

and there was me thinking they hadn't finished with the Higgs-Boson yet... My take on it is that they haven't. They've got something that looks like one but i may be something else entirely. All of the material coming out of CERN is of the sort that says "looks good but we're not positive."

There's no limit to what science can do and find new discoveries, like the Higgs-Boson particle to been so important to the development of all matter in the universe, they called it the "God" particle (over the top). We should find what consists of dark matter, thus nothing will prove what made up "God" is matter out of...nothing. No offense but... Again. For the millionth time. It's not called the godparticle for any reason other than Higgs wanted to call it the goddamned particle but his publishing agent recommended he change it to God Particle so it'd sell better. And they're only certain o... [More]

I was thinking.... Discovering the 'God particle' could have been like discovering the Midi-Chlorin... If that's the case we should not go looking for Dark Matter.

DARK matter - hmmmmmm. have we fully figured out "light" yet. "modern physics sees light as something that can be described sometimes with mathematics appropriate to one type of macroscopic metaphor (particles), and sometimes another macroscopic metaphor (water waves), but is actually something that cannot be fully imagined"