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iPod iChing - annihilation radiation in spaaaaace

By catdynamics on December 5, 2008.

Brrrr, an icy friday, and we gently shiver to the Mighty iPod and we ask: those high energy gamma ray blips recently detected - signature of dark matter annihilation, or just a regular nearby pulsar?

Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.

  • The Covering: Identify The Beat - Marc Smith vs Safe'n'Sound
  • The Crossing: Memories Can't Wait - Talking Heads
  • The Crown: Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
  • The Root: South Australia - Pogues
  • The Past: Breaking News - Half Man Half Biscuit
  • The Future: Private Investigations - Dire Straits
  • The Questioner: Straight to Hell - Clash
  • The House: Worried Man Blues - Half Man Half Biscuit
  • The Inside: Joyeux Anniversairie - Henri Dés
  • The Outcome: Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

Wow, can't get clearer than that.
A pulsar it is.

"There's so many different Worlds
So many different Suns
And we have just one World
But we live in different ones"

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

"We're just receiving reports of an incident at a farm in Sussex where a number of people have been arrested in connection with "Annoying The Nation".
It is believed that that the owner of the farm, a Mr. Hibbert, has been co-operating with Police and government officials in a plot codenamed Operation Less Pricks, "

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Bummer, dude.

I am really hoping for the origins of dark matter to get discovered soonish, leaving "only" dark energy as the big mystery...

I fear Dark Energy will be one of those things where no theorist figures it out until we get enough data to brute force a model.
At some point I estimated there were over 2000 theory/model papers for dark energy and not a single one that sounded even plausible. Must be many more now, and I don't think we're any closer to a decent conjecture on it.

Dark matter should be easier.
LSP would be kinda boring - I am fond of dark sector models with their own gauge fields and chemistry.