Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter

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Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.

Patricia Burchat studies the universe's most basic ingredients -- the mysterious dark energy and dark matter that are massively more abundant than the visible stars and galaxies. She is one of the founders of the BaBar Collaboration at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a project that's hoping to answer the question, "If there are as many anti-particles as there are particles, why can't we see all these anti-particles?"
She's a member of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project, which will allow scientists to monitor exploding supernovae and determine how fast the universe is expanding -- and map how mass is distributed throughout the universe. She's also part of Fermilab Experiment E791, studying the production and decay of charmed particles. Burchat received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.
"By the time I arrived at Stanford, I knew I was a reductionist at heart. I am most interested in trying to understand nature at its most fundamental level."
Patricia Burchat.

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[IronMan9734]

The dark matter you are looking for vibrates on a higher frequency. That is why you can't detect it. We are using the wrong tools to search for it. We do not have the technology yet, but you are on the right track. I could demonstrate for you in person but I don't think that would happen. So you will just have to keep thinking.

[volound]

@nutty01 theres such a thing as a half-revealed pie chart.

maybe you should have watched the rest of the video.

[nutty01]

@volound are we seeing the same thing?1:13

[volound]

@wolfwing1 nothing is missing. thats why they use a pie chart instead of pacman.

[wolfwing1]

I still think personally that the missing particals isn't missing, it's the universe itself.

[KalimaShaktide]

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