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The building blocks of the universe

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Detecting Dark Matter

Scientist prisca is working on an experiment at the bottom of a mine. The really hard thing about finding dark matter is k get just passes right through normal matter. There are billions and trillions of these dark matter particles coming through the earth. But mostly they don't interact with a detector, because they're so weakly interacting. Every once in a while, a dark matter particle might just like, nudge little bit of a nucleus of some atom of normal matter to give it a tiny shiver that we can detect.

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