{"id":808,"date":"2015-01-16T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samuelmuggington.com\/wordpress\/?p=808"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:27:11","slug":"dark-matter-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samuelmuggington.com\/wordpress\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAMA , a research group that investigates rare processes in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lngs.infn.it\/\">underground laboratory of the Gran Sasso<\/a>, has published results of an experiment that investigates dark matter. \u00a0You can find out more about their work here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.roma2.infn.it\/~dama\/web\/home.html\">The DAMA Project &#8211;\u00a0Investigations on particle DArk MAtter and other rare processes with highly radiopure scintillators @ Gran Sasso<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting project using a well-known approach, looking for seasonal variations in data. <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/2015\/jan\/12\/new-calculations-support-dark-matter-discovery-by-dama-say-physicists\">They add an interesting twist by assuming that their dark matter target of sodium with it&#8217;s odd number of protons is the reason that their detector has succeeded in detecting dark matter while others have not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still skeptical that they have actually detected dark matter since there are other plausible explanations for the results. In any event, it is a fascinating development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMA , a research group that investigates rare processes in an underground laboratory of the Gran Sasso, has published results of an experiment that investigates dark matter. \u00a0You can find out more about their work here: The DAMA Project &#8211;\u00a0Investigations on particle DArk MAtter and other rare processes with highly radiopure scintillators @ Gran Sasso &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/samuelmuggington.com\/wordpress\/?p=808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dark matter update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,183],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-mind-of-muggington","tag-dark-matter","tag-pomroys-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dark matter update - Samuel Muggington&#039;s blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/samuelmuggington.com\/wordpress\/?p=808\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dark matter update - Samuel Muggington&#039;s blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DAMA , a research group that investigates rare processes in an underground laboratory of the Gran Sasso, has published results of an experiment that investigates dark matter. \u00a0You can find out more about their work here: The DAMA Project &#8211;\u00a0Investigations on particle DArk MAtter and other rare processes with highly radiopure scintillators @ Gran Sasso &hellip; 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