Dark Matter’s Last Stand
[Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, April 2021]
Although dark matter has proved more elusive than some had initially hoped, physicists are far from giving up. “A lot of people have a view of science that is like Star Trek,” says theoretical physicist Tim Tait of the University of California, Irvine. “You see something and take out a tricorder and get an answer. But it’s actually a very messy process, and you try lots of things until you find something that works. All the things that didn’t work were an important part of the process.”