The answer is they were looking for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPs. It will take more sensitive detectors and about 10 to 15 more years to completely eliminate all WIMP models for dark matter.
Zineta seems particularly brilliant. A question for you is what other types of particles are theorized to make up dark matter besides WIMPs?
“A question for you is what other types of particles are theorized to make up dark matter besides WIMPs?”
Well, they theorize stuff like axions and sterile neutrinos, but I don’t really bother following those theories much since I don’t believe there is much of a probability any of them are correct. Once they’ve ruled them all out, they’ll probably just propose more imaginary particles to chase after for a few more decades.
Thanks, I think, but not Brilliant.
I just like to ask questions.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but we seem to be aware of what has been described as a “Particle Zoo”.
The LHC has said they found the Higgs Boson or God Particle.
Kinda like a “controlling particle” for the rest of the zoo.
That said, I get the impression that the search for Dark whatever is somehow outside of what we have discovered in our physical world.
Since you are begging the question, I’d like a hint.