{"id":171407,"date":"2023-09-06T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/using-an-atomic-clock-to-help-find-evidence-of-dark-matter"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:23:11","slug":"using-an-atomic-clock-to-help-find-evidence-of-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/using-an-atomic-clock-to-help-find-evidence-of-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Using an atomic clock to help find evidence of dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-an-atomic-clock-to-help-find-evidence-of-dark-matter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A combined team of physicists from the University of Sussex and the National Physical Laboratory, both in the U.K., has been designing experiments to identify ultra-light dark matter particles. In their paper published in the open-access <i>New Journal of Physics<\/i>, the group describes how they are attempting to use the high precision of atomic clocks to detect ultra-light dark matter particle \u201ckicks\u201d that would lead to time variations and, in so doing, would show evidence of dark matter.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, dark matter is not something that has been shown to exist\u2014instead it is more of a placeholder that has been created to explain observations of deviations from the Standard Model of physics\u2014like certain gravitational effects on galaxies. Since its development as a theory back in the early 1930s, physicists around the world have been developing theories and experiments to prove that it exists.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, despite a lot of time and effort, no such proof has been found. In this new effort, the team in the U.K. is working on a novel way to add credence to dark matter theories\u2014using atomic clocks to detect ultra-light dark matter particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A combined team of physicists from the University of Sussex and the National Physical Laboratory, both in the U.K., has been designing experiments to identify ultra-light dark matter particles. In their paper published in the open-access New Journal of Physics, the group describes how they are attempting to use the high precision of atomic clocks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}