Did We Just Make Contact With The 'Kosmos' Over Which The Prince Of The "Air" Reigns?

Did We Just Make Contact With The 'Kosmos' Over Which The Prince Of The "Air" Reigns? Scientists Puzzled Over Discovery And Say If Verified, We Have



Found A Mirror "Dark Side" Universe Complete With Its Own FORCE, A Zoo Of MATTER, And Even A SHADOW Version Of The Milky Way
The hunt for some of the most wanted stuff in the universe took a new twist this week with the first results from a high-profile, space-based dark matter detector. The results are inconclusive, but, if combined with recent theory, they hint at something exciting. Could the universe have a dark side, complete with its own force, a zoo of particles and even a shadow version of the Milky Way? "There could be a mirror world where interesting things are going on," says James Bullock of the University of California at Irvine, who has been working on the idea of a "dark sector" for a while. "It means nature is much richer than we would otherwise know," he says. The dark sector could help explain why we've failed to detect dark matter on Earth so far, but it would also demand a radical shift in our understanding of the stuff... Randall's dark disc, meanwhile, would affect the movements of some stars in ways that the Gaia satellite, which launches in October, could spot. And because the disc rotates at about the same speed as the Milky Way, WIMPs might collect in the sun more often than you would expect, knocking into solar protons to produce neutrinos. The IceCube detector in Antarctica could detect those extra neutrinos – although in results released two weeks ago the detector reported no such signal.

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Twist in dark matter tale hints at shadow Milky Way

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