[Gary Boldwater]

Thanks for the alert! As always the key line:

"Dark matter has never yet been directly or indirectly observed. "

And now there's "dark matter particles". Next will be "dark matter virtual photons".

It's all Pagan Science. One virtual particle to explain this, hidden undetectable matter that does that.

There's better evidence that UFOs exist. There are photos, radar tracks and reliable witnesses.

I say change their funding to either the virtual type of the dark hidden type.

[RightWhale]

All this is to hype the physics program at the Univ of Flo. I didn't see the paper and there wasn't a link to a PDF version, so I assume this is all what-ifs, conversation between grad students waiting for the next class.

[gcruse]

I say change their funding to either the
 virtual type of the dark hidden type.

Alright.  I shall put your request on my
list of things from which I nightly beseech
the invisible man in the sky who has never
been directly or indirectly detected.