LUX-Zeplin Dark Matter Experiment, Two Others, Get Government Green Light

Friday, July 18, 2014 - 17:31 in Physics & Chemistry

The U.S. Department of Energy has given the green light to the LUX-Zeplin (LZ) experiment, which wants to help figure out dark matter, an invisible substance that must make up a lot more of the universe than visible matter does. It is essentially a scientific placeholder because whatever it is should explain a number of important behaviors of the universe, including the structural integrity of galaxies.  read more

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