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Sci Tech    H4'ed 8/13/16

NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter

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They've been searching for dark matter/dark energy for a long time & have come up with zip. Recently the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) explored the properties of nature at higher energies than ever before, and has found something profound: nothing new. There are no particles below the level of Higgs so far, even though they were predicted.
It looks like we are going to need a new theory of the cosmos.  Here's a radical rethought which will be rejected by almost everyone...but which actually works and explains everything: Expansion Theory. The basic idea is that EVERYTHING is expanding down to the subatomic level. The outward push would obviate the need for forces we can't detect.  I know; I said it was controversial.  Here's a review, first posted in Opednews in 2010, with high level math and everything!

Meanwhile, the search continues but it looks increasingly in vain.

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