Here is an implication of the story: The detector they use comprises a 440-gram crystal of germanium... dark matter is so abundant that 100 million particles of it are expected to pass through the CoGeNT detector every second...
OK - Terry may be imagining the same thing that I am - that if "dark matter" really exists in such a large flux deep in a cave (it is less than neutrinos but very large nevertheless) - then all that one needs to do to capture plenty of it - is simply to design a better ANTENNA to collect it. Many things have been tried, and a crystal of germanium is a poor antenna. Extremely poor. Time to think outside the box. Leading one to wonder ... hmmm ... if perhaps "spillover hydrogen" captured in a nickel matrix is that sought-after "antenna for dark matter." Jones -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton And dark matter is seasonal: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20434-second-experiment-hints-at-seaso nal-dark-matter-signal.html T
