{"id":195461,"date":"2024-08-30T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-experiment-delves-into-earths-underbelly-sets-records"},"modified":"2024-08-30T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T23:24:37","slug":"dark-matter-experiment-delves-into-earths-underbelly-sets-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/dark-matter-experiment-delves-into-earths-underbelly-sets-records","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter experiment delves into Earth\u2019s underbelly, sets records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-experiment-delves-into-earths-underbelly-sets-records2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 The most sensitive dark matter detector in the world is showing results in the hunt for the hypothetical particle. The results: they can\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think of the search for dark matter like searching for buried treasure,\u201d said Scott Kravitz, an associate professor in the physics department at the University of Texas, \u201cwe\u2019ve basically dug part of the way down to where it might be, it could still be deeper below what we\u2019ve searched so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kravitz is part of the LEX-ZEPLIN project, a Department of Energy hunt for dark matter in a cavern in South Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 The most sensitive dark matter detector in the world is showing results in the hunt for the hypothetical particle. The results: they can\u2019t find it. \u201cIf you think of the search for dark matter like searching for buried treasure,\u201d said Scott Kravitz, an associate professor in the physics department at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195461","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\/195461","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}