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"On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?" -Victor Francis Hess We've come a tremendously long way in our understanding of the Universe, but there are plenty of mysteries still to be revealed. Way back in the late 1800s, we noticed that there was an unaccounted-for excess in the amount of ionization in the upper atmosphere, something that our Sun and Earth, by themselves, couldn't explain. Victor Francis Hess -- the originator of the quote atop -- decided to go see for himself, and conducted a series of…
I'm at wee bit behind on this here blogging thingie, but there has been a flurry of physics results which are worth a quick peek: CoGENT claims CDM result - claim marginal detection of annual modulation, consistent with light CDM particle. See resonaances for detail Fermi confirms Pamela - say no more, nudge nudge wink wink Talking of blind bats: AMS is on Now for something completely different: Cliff Will explains Gravity Probe B CMS experiment at the LHC hints unsubtly that they might be seeing stringy quantum black holes - I'll believe it when I see the Earth implode... Theorists get…