{"id":13433,"date":"2013-02-18T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13433"},"modified":"2013-02-18T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:21:38","slug":"has-dark-matter-finally-been-found-big-news-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/02\/18\/has-dark-matter-finally-been-found-big-news-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Space.com<\/em> has the story <a title=\"Space.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/19845-dark-matter-found-nasa-experiment.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? Big News Coming Soon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some physics theories suggest that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/16661-dark-matter-search-reveals-nothing.html\"><strong>dark matter is made of WIMPS<\/strong><\/a> (weakly interacting massive particles), a class of particles that are their own antimatter partner particles. When matter and antimatter partners meet, they annihilate each other, so if two WIMPs collided, they would be destroyed, releasing a pair of daughter particles \u2014 an electron and its antimatter counterpart, the positron, in the process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=912284622001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F11439-sifting-cosmic-sands-dark-matter.html&#038;playerID=1403109806001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFR6xVM~,85KKOZyvPf6qwFANvqEzo9EFltY58YnJ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=912284622001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.com%2F11439-sifting-cosmic-sands-dark-matter.html&#038;playerID=1403109806001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAFR6xVM~,85KKOZyvPf6qwFANvqEzo9EFltY58YnJ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"\/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space.com has the story Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? 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