Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed 113
sciencehabit writes "In 2008, the Italian satellite PAMELA picked up an unusual signal: a spike in antimatter particles whizzing through space. The discovery, controversial at the time, hinted that physicists might be coming close to detecting dark matter, an enigmatic substance thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe. Now, new data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm the spike (abstract)."
Just the emissions of an alien real estate agent.. (Score:4, Funny)
What I am afraid of (Score:2, Funny)
What I am afraid of, if anyone ever cared... ;)
What I am afraid of is that some people will use this as evidence of otherworldly forces (any Slashdot reader), supreme beings (any Slashdot reader), Batman (a DC comic), demons (a variety of delusions), Thor (The Norse God), Bogeyman (an American tell tale), Akhenaten's Ra (Akhenaten the monotheistic precursor to the Abrahamitic monotheistic "Yahweh"), Santa Claus (The Coca Cola version of a Norse tradtion), Green Lantern (a DC superhero), Sherlock Holmes (a Doyle detective), King Kong (a Hollywood movie), or whatever has sprung out of man's mind.
Dark Matter. Ok, calm down, we won't bite.
Why are we discussing this? (Score:5, Funny)
It doesn't matter
Re:Dark matter or antimatter? (Score:5, Funny)
The answer is in the second paragraph of the article.
Well, don't keep us hanging in suspense here! What does the second paragraph of the article say?!?
Re:Dark matter or antimatter? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why are we discussing this? (Score:5, Funny)
>It doesn't matter
What's the matter with you? As a matter of fact, it does. One semantically related question is which of the two mats is more mat than the other - which one is matter? Probably the person who lays mats for a living, the matter, could answer that.
Re:Why are we discussing this? (Score:5, Funny)
woooosh
Well, dark matter *is* hard to detect.
Re:Dark matter or antimatter? (Score:5, Funny)
"Some dark matter candidates are, according to theory, their own anti-particle"
In related news, Herman Cain is his own worst enemy.
Re:Anti-matter vs. dark matter (Score:2, Funny)
Interestingly enough, we could all be made up of antimatter. If after the Big Bang, the amount of anitmatter was greater than matter, we be made (assuming me happened to exist) out of anitmatter, but call the anitmatter "normal matter", and call the real matter "anitmatter".
Yeah! And how come we call them fingers if we never see them fing?
Re:Dark matter or antimatter? (Score:5, Funny)
Why is this modded +4 informative?
Because it saved millions of slashdotters from having to read TFA.