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Subject Has dark matter finally been found? 'Big news coming soon', say scientists

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Original Message The mysterious substance has teased physicists for decades, challenging the very notions of the cosmos.

ARE the answers of the universe finally within reach? Not quite, but some of the world's leading physicists have ominously promised some "big news" very soon.

Exciting developments in the search for dark matter may be coming in a matter of weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment has said. "We are so excited because we believe we are on the threshold of a major discovery," said Michael Turner, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, at an annual conference.

The first paper of results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) – a $2billion particle collector mounted on the outside of the International Space Station – will be submitted to a scientific journal soon, MIT physicist Samuel Ting added. Although Ting refused to specify just what the experiment had found, he said the results bear on the mystery of dark matter – the invisible 'stuff' thought to outnumber regular matter in the universe by a factor of about six to one.

[link to www.express.co.uk]

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