Dark matter is doesn't matter. CERN disagree.
Aha! I may get that Nobel after all.
News via BBC is that my postulate of dark matter renaming to doesn't matter might matter, which CERN want to find out when they switch the LHC back on after 2 years of polishing the brassware and trying to think of some way to follow on now that Higgs has shown the world that matter is now allowed to have mass.
That was a blow to weight watchers but otherwise it was expected. One may wonder what is next on the expected list and the answer there is nothing. So why switch the LHC back on? Because something is the matter, we just don't know yet what that may be.
Best they can come up with to justify the expense is the vague outside possibility that evidence may emerge showing what we know and have proven correct, is wrong.
They say dark matter matters, because if it didn't, the LHC could happily stay off. And, of course, they'd all have to find jobs. Not everyone has such charm and wit as Prof. Brian Cox, OBE.
So yeah, my former post on dark matter, anti-matter, matter and doesn't matter suddenly today had a resonance of relevance. In a curious quirk (quark?), this post is almost anti-LHC. So I can't go there, what with mutual annihilation and all that.
Here's the article...
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31162725
Antimatter: missing altogether
Even within the 5% of the universe that we do know about, there is a baffling imbalance. The Big Bang ought to have produced two flavours of particle - matter and antimatter - in equal amounts.
When those two types of particle collide, they "annihilate" each other. A lot of that sort of annihilation went on, physicists say, and everything we can see in the universe is just the scraps left behind.
But puzzlingly, nearly all of those scraps are of one flavour: matter.
"You just don't get antimatter in the universe," says Prof Shears. "You get it in sci-fi and you get it when things decay radioactively, but there are no good deposits of it around."
This glaring absence is "one of the biggest mysteries we have", she adds. And it is the primary target of the LHCb experiment.
There, a series of slab-shaped detectors is waiting to try and pinpoint the difference between the particles and anti-particles that pop out of the proton collisions. Run One did reveal some of those differences - but nothing that could explain the drastic tipping of the universal scales towards matter.
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Squeak Theory
In my post I also mentioned that a billion universes evaporated without so much as a squeak.
See? Nobody mentions the squeak, possibility of or lack thereof. Am I the only one thinking that microwave radiation background is found, but nobody is listening for the remnants of the squeak. It may not be there, fair enough, it it equally may. If I can locate it for sure the Nobel is mine. Like Penzias and Wilson, you don't have to be a physicist or for that matter (!) know what you're doing to land the Nobel for Physics.
Not that it matters.
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- Existence of anti-matter
- Release of energy on annihilation
- Several billion universes then converted to pure energy simultaneously
- Progression of anti-logic to the point where applied logic requires seriously advanced mathematics to be valid, and deductive reasoning or intuition will not apply.
