Dark Matter Discovery

[astroron (Ron)]

Scientists have made a possible discovery of Dark Matter
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7977102.stm

[BerrieK]

Yippee!!

I wonder why the experiment is called Pamela?

Looking foreward to the the LHC to be up and running to confirm / repudiate this discovery.

Kerrie

[bojan]

PAMELA stands for
a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics..

How do they come up with those abbreviations? :-)

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by bojan

PAMELA stands for
a Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics..

How do they come up with those abbreviations? :-)

They probably have a list of names (like wives, children etc) they want and the one that comes up with the most obscure acronym wins!

[bojan]

You are most likely right :-)