LOL! I think this is an appropriate name for their project, don't you? And PRISM isn’t from just a “Center” of Excellence … it’s from a CLUSTER of Excellence! I'm impressed! But, sad to say and entirely predictable, after a month where an “international TEAM” (best of the best) searched tirelessly for dark matter using the GNOME network, they have to report that analysis of data “has not yet yield[ed] a corresponding indication” of a characteristic signal pattern that (they claim) dark matter *fields* should produce. Strange, given that what they were looking for is, according to one of those involved, “one of the most promising candidates for dark matter today.” You’d think, if DM is all around us … even streaming through us as DM scientists claim, they would have seen that signal by now, don't you?Worldwide coordinated search for dark matter
An international team of researchers with key participation from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has published for the first time comprehensive data on the search for dark matter using a worldwide network of optical magnetometers.
According to the scientists, dark matter fields should produce a characteristic signal pattern that can be detected by correlated measurements at multiple stations of the GNOME network.
So ... yet another DM boondoggle comes up empty. I wonder how much this one cost to set up and run? I couldn't find that (in fact, a lot of times that type of information is hard to come by). I wonder why? In any event, they’re not giving up. No, those involved, like all DM researchers whose first or second or even tenth attempt to find the stuff fails, have BIG plans for the “collaboration” … to improve both the magnetometers in the network and the data analysis. Which of course will cost more $$$$$ ... and keep them employed for a while longer. Because when you have 49 authors on the paper announcing the current results of this one little effort, you have lot of mouths that need continuous feeding. As I've said before, the mainstream is now dependent on the DM gnome and have to keep it alive. NO MATTER WHAT.