Meanwhile, the next generation of indoctrinated astrophysicists are sucking off the Dark Matter teat ...
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:39 pm
Like this one …
https://news.mit.edu/2021/kerstin-perez ... atter-0102
https://news.mit.edu/2021/kerstin-perez ... atter-0102
I find her statement in the last paragraph particularly ironic, since the ease with which they've convinced themselves is why we are in this situation in the first place. She should have asked herself if there is ANY observation that would make her doubt the existence of DM. But she won’t. Because she’s fully inculcated into the cult. And by the way, look at the list of people involved in the GAPS project … https://gaps1.astro.ucla.edu/gaps/people.php . It’s not just her, but at least 53 other names, feeding at the DM trough. Just saying …Kerstin Perez is searching for imprints of dark matter. The invisible substance embodies 84 percent of the matter in the universe and is thought to be a powerful cosmic glue, keeping whole galaxies from spinning apart. And yet, the particles themselves leave barely a trace on ordinary matter, thwarting all efforts at detection thus far.
Perez, a particle physicist at MIT, is hoping that a high-altitude balloon experiment, to be launched into the Antarctic stratosphere in late 2022, will catch indirect signs of dark matter, in the particles that it leaves behind. Such a find would significantly illuminate dark matter’s elusive nature.
The experiment, which Perez co-leads, is the General AntiParticle Spectrometer, or GAPS, a NASA-funded mission that aims to detect products of dark matter annihilation. When two dark matter particles collide, it’s thought that the energy of this interaction can be converted into other particles, including antideuterons — particles that then ride through the galaxy as cosmic rays which can penetrate Earth’s stratosphere. If antideuterons exist, they should come from all parts of the sky, and Perez and her colleagues are hoping GAPS will be at just the right altitude and sensitivity to detect them.
“If we can convince ourselves that’s really what we’re seeing, that could help point us in the direction of what dark matter is,” says Perez, who was awarded tenure this year in MIT’s Department of Physics.