"Axions"

[Diane]

Nothing to do with "axons".... :)

I just saw this report (http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/525732/?sc=dwhn) this morning. An axion is evidently a vanishingly short-lived particle that helps make up the "dark matter" that has been so controversial. It took this physicist his entire career and 175 scientific papers to get to the place where he could first find, then figure out how to measure these things.

[bernard]

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This is what I'm seeing. :confused:

[Diane]

Wow. Me too. Here was the blurb that led to the report that is no more:
A Tiny Particle Called the Axion Is Found
After decades of effort by physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the "axion," has now been detected by the University at Buffalo physicist who first suggested its existence in a little-read paper as early as 1974.
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Jan-2007
—University at Buffalo