{"id":35305,"date":"2016-07-21T20:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=35305"},"modified":"2016-07-21T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T02:17:19","slug":"dark-matter-still-a-mystery-most-sensitive-search-yet-comes-up-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/07\/dark-matter-still-a-mystery-most-sensitive-search-yet-comes-up-empty.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35306\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/Dusel_diagram.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35306\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35306\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/07\/Dusel_diagram-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"Underground lab facilities\" width=\"596\" height=\"375\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the aliens come, as inevitably they will, it\u2019s people in facilities like this who will make humanity\u2019s\u00a0last, hopeless, stand. But, unless Will Smith shows up, they\u2019ll fail in the end.<br>(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33497-dark-matter-search-comes-up-empty-lux-detector.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/33497-dark-matter-search-comes-up-empty-lux-detector.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a column that played off of \u201cdark matter\u201d and \u201cdark energy\u201d a while back:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/865634415\/Materialism-isnt-what-it-used-to-be.html?pg=all\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMaterialism isn\u2019t what it used to be\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.space.com\/33497-dark-matter-search-comes-up-empty-lux-detector.html \u00a0 I wrote a column that played off of \u201cdark matter\u201d and \u201cdark energy\u201d a while back: \u00a0 \u201cMaterialism isn\u2019t what it used to be\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Dark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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