MATÉRIA NEGRA

Habitual destaque semanal para a coluna "What's New" do físico Robert Park:

"WIMPS: THE UNIVERSE WE CAN’T SEE.

When they were building the Large Hadron Collider it seemed to be all about finding the Higgs boson. But there seems to be increasing interest in using the LHC to to learn something about the 85% of the universe we can't see. We know it's there because it has gravity, but that's about all it has. The betting is that it's a particle, and the leading candidate is the WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle). Gianfranco Bertone in yesterday's issue of Nature predicts that if there is such a ghostl particle it will be exposed by LHC in the next few years."

Robert Park