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Old 29-03-2010, 12:02 AM
Nesti (Mark)
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post

The fundamental problem with dark matter is that if it does exist it will impact on the Standard Model in particle physics.

That's the question I asked Dr Hendry when he gave his talk on Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I asked him that shouldn't the sheer presence of Dark Matter call for the Standard Model to be revised, or, a at least a super-symmetric version. In the case of a super-symmetric version, the Gravitino looks like it couldn't be the origin of Dark Energy, so we're still stuck with at least one of them.

I think he was visiting UWA to promote gravity wave research.
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