Friday, April 29, 2011

The World's Biggest Space Experiment Launches, Ready to Find Dark Matter and Alternate Universes

Friday’s space shuttle launch will be much more than the final hurrah for the shuttle Endeavour. Riding in its cargo bay is a massive and controversial physics experiment that could help answer some of the most confounding mysteries in science. With the delivery of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, the space shuttle’s penultimate mission could turn out to be one of its greatest achievements.

Soaking up cosmic rays from its permanent perch on the International Space Station, the AMS is designed to study the universe’s deepest secrets — what happened to all the antimatter, and what, in the name of all creation, is dark matter?



Source: Popular Science

No comments :

Popular Posts Last Week

Popular Posts This Month

Popular Posts All Time