Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, features a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. This is issue 015.
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As many of my readers know, I’ve repeatedly challenged the notion of both Dark Matter and Dark Energy as variables in the discussion regarding both the issue of angular momentum in galaxies for DM and the expansion of the Universe under DE.
Well, though the two concepts are seemingly unrelated, although I tend to find both arguments vacuous, the first nail in the DM coffin was reported on May 5th in Scientific America. I’ll excerpt the following from writer John Matson …
“An experiment looking for the signal of dark matter deep in an underground lab in Italy turned up no candidate signals in 11 days of early operation, the experimental collaboration reported in a paper posted online Monday. The underground detector, called XENON100, only recently began taking data but is already challenging prior claims and hints of dark matter signals, according to the team, which published its findings on the physics preprint repository arXiv.org.
