Emphasis mine.Originally, scientists had expected to see enough particle interactions -- enough moving billiard balls -- to be able to derive the mass and velocity of the dark matter particles. But, Lisanti said, "we haven't seen anything yet."
So instead of using the interactions to determine the speed, researchers like Lisanti and her colleagues are hoping to flip the script, and use the speed to explain why the direct detection experiments haven't detected anything yet.
The failure -- at least so far -- of the direct detection experiments leads to two questions, Lisanti said. "How am I ever going to figure out what the speeds of these things are?" and "Have we not seen anything because there's something different in the speed distribution than we expected?"
Translation: LCDM cult followers don't care one iota that the standard model of particle physics is the most successful and well tested theory in the history of particle physics, or that the standard particle physics model has passed every conceivable "test" in the lab with flying colors. They absolutely don't care that their so called laboratory "tests" of their exotic matter claims have all been dismal failures, and they don't care that "dark matter" theory has been totally and completely useless at predicting anything in the lab. They're still desperately trying to keep "dark matter" in the news, so they're dreaming up new and even more elaborate and lame excuses as to why they can't find it. The absurd rationalizations never end.
Oy Vey. Like dark matter particles wouldn't be accelerated by the gravitational attraction of the planet? How would this idea even help them to explain their pathetic string of failures at LHC, LUX, Xenon-1T or anywhere else? They don't have any idea. They're just handwaving.
If the mainstream didn't have hypothetical computer models to talk about they wouldn't have anything to discuss. Their exotic dark matter hypothesis is the single biggest failure in the history of physics. No other hypothesis in history has enjoyed so much effort and had so much money spent on so called "testing' without producing a shred of evidence to support it. They've flushed tens of *billions* of dollars down the drain and they've found exactly nothing to support exotic matter claims.
Sheesh. What a dog of hypothesis. The mainstream rationalization are getting more desperate and more irrational by the day. Is there no low they won't stoop to in an effort to keep DM in the news? Evidently not!