{"id":93296,"date":"2019-07-08T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/these-odd-quasiparticles-could-finally-unmask-dark-matter"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:24:39","slug":"these-odd-quasiparticles-could-finally-unmask-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/these-odd-quasiparticles-could-finally-unmask-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"These Odd \u2018Quasiparticles\u2019 Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-odd-quasiparticles-could-finally-unmask-dark-matter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 80% of all the matter in the cosmos is of a form completely unknown to current physics. We call it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65208-fuzzy-dark-matter-evidence.html\">dark matter<\/a>, because as best we can tell it\u2019s\u2026dark. Experiments around the world are attempting to capture a stray dark matter particle in hopes of understanding it, but so far they have turned up empty.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a team of theorists has proposed a new way to hunt for dark matter using weird \u201cparticles\u201d called magnons, a name I did not just make up. These tiny ripples could lure even a fleeting, lightweight dark matter particle out of hiding, those theorists say. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64113-dark-matter-mysteries.html\">The 11 Biggest Unanswered Questions About Dark Matter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>We know all sorts of things about dark matter, with the notable exception of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64258-dark-matter-search-failed.html\">what it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 80% of all the matter in the cosmos is of a form completely unknown to current physics. We call it dark matter, because as best we can tell it\u2019s\u2026dark. Experiments around the world are attempting to capture a stray dark matter particle in hopes of understanding it, but so far they have turned up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93296","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\/93296","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}