You may have seen this story (if you follow "dark matter" on google alerts)
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-invisible-dark.html The deep underground experiment failed to find WIMPs once again. surprise, surprise. and that is doubly punny since "wimpy" is emblematic of Big-Fizzix these days. Just look at the array of 3-letter boondoggles which are role models for LUX (WIMPs) - NIF, ITER, JET, LHC. with almost nothing provable to show for the 10s of billions invested. LUX will waste another $50,000,000 next go-round, most of that going generous retirement funds -- but if they weren't so close-minded to the alternatives . and did not fear identifying the most likely candidate for DM, which is dense hydrogen (UDH), then they could invite Holmlid to the party . to perform an experiment nearby which could cost less than a tenth of a percent of budget. That would be one of many possibilities which will never be tried because the burden of eventual success will be too heavy for the wimpy . since it will be a tacit admission of the dense hydrogen connection to LENR. They might even have to admit that Matti has something to say on the topic. http://matpitka.blogspot.com/2016/05/very-strong-support-for-tgd-based-model .html Heaven forbid that the chosen ones should forego reeling in 5 more years of excess, instead of taking the blinders off . WIMPs were a brain-dead invention from day one insofar as they ignore dense hydrogen in favor of another acronym whose main purpose is big bucks for Big Fizz.
