Archive | November, 2013

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are subatomic particles making up Dark Matter

“WIMPs” stands for weakly interacting massive particles. This comes from physicists speaking about clouds of subatomic particles left over from the Big Bang that could pass through the Earth like smoke through a screen door, as described in an article of Dennis Overbye in the New York Times about tests to produce evidence of these […]