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An individual interpretation on the structure of the Universe.
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Dark Matter This text may be freely redistributed among individuals in any medium so long as it remains unedited and appears with this notice Any commercial or republication requires the written permission of the author. INTRO The search for the origin of...Experiment searching for dark matter with low activity scintillators in the Gran Sasso laboratories.
http://www.lngs.infn.it/lngs/htexts/dama/
Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers; a search for dark matter in the Gran Sasso laboratories.
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WELCOME T is an experiment in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory to search for WIMP dark matter using cryogenic detectors. The participating institutions are Max Planck Institute of Physics, Technical University of Munich, University of Oxford Gran Sasso National Laboratory and...UK search for Galactic WIMP dark matter.
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UKDMC default. Transferring to http hepwww.rl.ac.uk/ukdmc/ukdmc.html You should be transferred there automatically; if not, click link above....A detailed discussion of the various pieces of gravitational evidence for the existence of dark matter, the different forms it might take, and their impact on cosmological theories.
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Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Cosmology is the study of the evolution of the Universe. Behind physics is the more ancient and honorable tradition of attempts to understand where the world came from, where it is going, and why. P. J. E. Peebles Cosmology the...A brief popular science type introduction to the subject.
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Chandra Field Guide to X-ray Astronomy Dark Matter Mystery While carefully measuring the speed of rotation of galaxies, astronomers stumbled upon a profound cosmic mystery. They could estimate what the rotation speed should be by calculating the mass of all the visible stars and gas, thereby determining the gravity...An informative radio transcript of two scientists talking about dark matter.
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Dark Matter Radio Broadcast Einstein that will be appear in 1998. The first question is What is dark matter Professor Samuel: Well, dark matter is one of the greatest puzzles of modern astronomy. Everybody loves a mystery such as a Sherlock Holmes story or...Physics News Update.
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Physics News Update Number 446 Story DARK MATTER ANNIHILATION AT THE GALACTIC CENTER How does the presumed massive black hole at the center of our galaxy shape the distribution of the presumed halo of dark matter in its vicinity? Paolo Gondolo of the Max Planck Institute of Physics (Munich, Germany) and Joseph Silk...Workshop in Aspen, June 19 - July 9, 2000.
http://andy.bu.edu/aspen/workshops00.html#dark
Theory and measurements of sizes of fluctuations of cosmic microwave background agree with omega=1 giving a strong evidence for dark matter.
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Physics News Update Number 479 Story DARK ENERGY AND THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND The theory of general relativity introduced the notion that spacetime could be warped or curved by the presence of matter. Locally, stars or any object with mass will curve space, but the expansion of the universe itself may introduce a...A dark matter tutorial.
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Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe The evidence for dark matter is gravitational. In Astronomy, as in all sciences, one can detect an object in one of two ways: either by observing it directly, or observing the effect that it has on other, more easily observed,...Comprehensive description with links to detailed summaries, including plots, graphs and schematics.
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Martin White: Dark Matter We believe that most of the matter in the universe is dark, i.e. cannot be detected from the light which it emits (or fails to emit This is stuff which cannot be seen directly so what makes us think that...Report (March 23/01) of astronomical evidence suggesting white dwarf stars are a potential source for dark matter. Findings also contribute to stellar evolution theory.
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Spaceflight Now Breaking News White dwarfs shed light on dark matter White dwarfs shed light on dark matter BY JEFF FOUSTSPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: March 23, 2001 A white dwarf, WD 0346, first reported by Nigel C. Hambly and Simon T. Hodgkin in 1997 and subsequently identified as a blue cool white dwarf,...Very concise illustrated overview with links to relevant topics and sub-topics.
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Dark Matter Superposed on an optical picture of a group of galaxies is an X-ray image taken by ROSAT. The image shows confined hot gas (which produces X-rays) highlighted in false red color. The presence of this confined gas indicates that the...The history of the discovery of dark matter in the Universe is reviewed. Emphasis on early work by Zwicky (1933), Smith (1936), Babcock (1939) and Oort (1940).
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904251
From Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Physics.
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Science Technology at Scientific American.com: Ask the Experts: Physics: Is dark matter theory or fact? Is dark matter theory or fact? Julio Vargas Guatemala City, Guatemala 1 2 next This answer was provided by physicists Rhett Herman of Radford University in Radford, Va. and Shane L. Larson of Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. Dark...The concept of mirror matter is explained. Mirror matter could form a sizable fraction of the inferred dark matter.
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/smitra
Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope ('Dark Matter Telescope'): proposed 8.4 m, 7 square-degree field telescope.
http://www.lssto.org/
A brief discussion on the semantics of mass, matter and weight.
http://wehner.org/agrav/mass.htm
From the Usenet Physics FAQ.
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What is Dark Matter? The story of dark matter is best divided into two parts. First we have the reasons that we know that it exists. Second is the collection of possible explanations as to what it is. Why the Universe Needs Dark Matter...The PICASSO project: A Dark Matter Search Experiment based on a Superheated Droplet Detector.
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Picasso Web Site v3.0 ...Cryogenic Dark Matter Search; searching for WIMPs with large germanium crystal cooled to 20 mK.
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CDMS Home Page Download the research brochure about our activities at the Soudan facility Scientific Results At Soudan (underground Results from second run at Soudan posted: astro-ph/0509259 and astro-ph/0509269 First results at the Soudan facility published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004 astro-ph/0405033)...A lecture.
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/gr...adoulet_lecture_nov95/dmtoc.html
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