Dark-matter detector has new home in South Dakota

[hue]

http://washingtonexaminer.com/dark-matter-detector-has-new-home-in-south-dakota/article/feed/2011791

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — After a painstakingly slow two-day move from the earth's surface, the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector has a new home nearly a mile underground in a shuttered South Dakota gold mine.

And when the switch is flipped later this year to start collecting data, scientists say it could be a Higgs boson-style celebration all over again.

"Dark matter presents a much bigger problem to detect and is more speculative than the Higgs," said Tom Shutt, a physics professor with Case Western Reserve University who's working on the Large Underground Xenon detector, known as LUX.

"If we find it, it's going to be a much bigger shift in our understanding of physics."

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Hopefully it will be turned on in Jan. 2013!!!
The hunt for Dark Matter continues!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

1. "The hunt for Dark Matter continues!!!" ...

Has anyone looked in Rmoney's offshore accounts ?

[hue]

2. Ideed that IS a dark matter!!

[freshwest]

3. Will they find a portal going to the planet Kolob? Will it be Mitt's October surprise?

[kickysnana]

4. In SD? Of course this will not work SD is a red state where science is myth. n/t