nightcats's Journal: The Search for Dark Matter

The Economist, curiously, offers this article on the next stage in the search for dark matter, the cosmic stuff that is to the universe as gluons are to the brain.

Claims to have spotted dark matter have so far rested mostly on evidence gathered by looking at collisions between clusters of galaxies. Some of these appear to have separated dark matter from its visible counterpart. Three months ago, however, a team of physicists reported subatomic evidence. They think they have seen an abundance of high-energy positrons, the antimatter versions of electrons, coming from space, and they speculate that this, too, is a sign of dark matter.

Now, if the Economist could only find the dark matter of the global economy...