Fractional Distillation; Dark Matter  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 407 no. 8830 (Apr. 2013), page 77-78.
Topik: Dark Matter; Astronomy; Universe; Research; Science

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The Higgs--the particle that gives other subatomic species mass--was predicted in 1964 but actually nabbed only last year. That 48-year hunt, though, was a breeze compared with the one for dark matter. Physicists have known the stuff must exist since 1933, when Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astrophysicist, coined the term to describe a substance which cannot be seen but without which visible galaxies would fly apart as they rotate. The latest results from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite suggest it makes up 85% of all the matter in the universe (up from an earlier estimate of around 80%). Like the Higgs boson, though, the actual particles of which dark matter is composed have proved elusive. Eight decades after Zwicky's observations, and dozens of experiments later, they remain undetected. But on April 3rd an experiment called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) offered the most tantalising hints yet.

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