Year: 2022

DARK MATTER SEARCHES. “In recent years, this field has witnessed significant advancements on both experimental and theoretical sides, stimulated by new-generation space-borne experiments such as PAMELA, the Fermi-LAT telescope, and the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

UNKNOWN MODES OF BEING (WW). “There was a hint of fear, not for our lives, but of a vast unknown which pressed in upon us. A fleeting feeling of disappointment -- that after all those dreams and questions this was only a mountain top -- gave way to the suspicion that maybe there was something more, something beyond the three-dimensional form of the moment. If only it could be perceived.” (Tom Hornbeam, 1963 upon summiting Everest, page 1). https://lnkd.in/exjbzyHG View in LinkedIn

“Two galaxies colliding into each other sounds like it should be hazardous, if not fatal, to the objects involved. In reality, it is the main way these stellar collectives grow and evolve. When they crash together, or even just pass close by, the resulting chaos stirs up the gas within them, creating knots of material which go on to form stellar nurseries.” https://lnkd.in/gu7xi9dj View in LinkedIn

ANTIMATTER SEARCH. “All the experiments observed a very significant and unexpected excess in the positron flux above 10 GeV: the positron energy spectrum is significantly different to the electron one and it is not compatible with the expected astrophysical background.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

TANTALIZING CLUE. “It is now generally accepted that the positron and electron spectra can be jointly understood only assuming the existence of as yet unknown sources of high-energy positrons and electrons in the Galaxy. The positron excess has caused a huge interest.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

PROMISING DATA. “CR protons and nuclei. Accurate, recent measurements of the most abundant CR species, such as protons and helium have recently revealed new and unexpected features in their energy spectra, that may shed new light on the acceleration and propagation mechanisms of CRs in the Galaxy.” (CR = cosmic ray). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

HIGH ENERGY RAYS. “The longstanding simple picture of a featureless and universal power-law energy spectrum of CRs might have been finally overcome. A remarkable change of spectral indices has been established for several CR energy spectra at a kinetic energy of about 300 GeV.” (CR = cosmic ray). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn

FINDING. “Matter–antimatter symmetry violated.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

SURPRISE. “In a mirror world, antiparticles should behave in the same way as particles. But it emerges that leptons — neutrinos, electrons and their more exotic cousins — might not obey this expected pattern.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE BIAS. “One reason we consider Newton brilliant is that in order to come up with his second law he had to ignore some data. He had to imagine, for example, that things were falling in a vacuum, free of the interfering effects of air resistance.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/09/are-we-witnessing-the-dawn-of-post-theory-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn