Researchers working at the Stawell gold mine want to figure out whether dark matter actually exists.
needs to happen this deep underground to cut out the cosmic ‘noise’ and radiation.
“No matter where we are on earth—underground or above ground—we have thousands, if not millions, of dark matter particles passing through us and they don’t do anything to us. To these particles, we are transparent,” the researcher said.As our planet rotates around the sun, dark matter particles are blown toward us by a headwind or a tailwind. If it’s a headwind, there’s more dark matter—if it’s a tailwind there’s less.
The device used to detect dark matter will take up almost a third of the completely sterile lab which measures 33 meters long and 10 meters wide with a 14-meter-high ceiling.
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