DARK MATTER: it was always there

[zaybu]

It seems that we had the evidence, but no one had noticed except a team of Italian physicists who weren't taken seriously.

At last, the data was confirmed by another team.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26861/?ref=rss

 

[Vanadium 50]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The region where CoGeNT and DAMA agree has been excluded by XENON100 and I think maybe CDMS.

 

[zaybu]

From the link:

Dan Hooper at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Chris Kelso from the University of Chicago review the data from CoGenT and DAMA/LIBRA and say they are compatible with each other. "If the true phase peaks in early May, this would represent a modulation consistent with that reported by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration," they say.

Aren't they confirming the data?

 

[Vanadium 50]

As I said, let's not get ahead of ourselves. The region where CoGeNT and DAMA agree has been excluded by XENON100 and I think maybe CDMS.

 

[phyzguy]

It seems that we had the evidence, but no one had noticed except a team of Italian physicists who weren't taken seriously.

At last, the data was confirmed by another team.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26861/?ref=rss

I agree with Vanadium 50, let's wait and see what the other experiments show.
One of the reasons that the DAMA team is not taken more seriously is that they refuse to release their data for others to see and analyze. This tends to make people skeptical.