«Neutrinos are one of
the most mysterious particles,» Collar said.
Not exact matches
We have no idea what's causing this gravity, though — we haven't directly detected the theorized
particles that make up this
mysterious material that doesn't seem to interact (other than gravitationally) with normal matter like light and the
particles that we know and love, which is what makes it invisible, and therefore «dark» to
most instruments normally used to understand our universe.
They interpreted it as the debris left behind when
particles of dark matter — the
mysterious substance that makes up
most of the matter in the universe yet refuses to interact with ordinary matter except through gravity — crashed together and annihilated each other in the centre of the Milky Way.
Dark matter is a
mysterious substance composing
most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic
particle.
Physicists interpreted it as the debris from
particles of
mysterious dark matter — thought to make up
most of the stuff in the universe — crashing together and annihilating each other.
According to the
most widely favored scenario, neutrinos,
mysterious elementary
particles, play a crucial role.
Quantum spin is one of the
most fundamental properties defining the physical state of an atom or a subatomic
particle, and also one of the
most mysterious: Although it has mathematical similarities to spinning in the familiar sense, it is an oddly abstract attribute, and it does not mean that
particles actually rotate like little tops.
Most agree that the
mysterious particle is not the long - sought Higgs boson, believed by many to endow
particles with mass.
Physicists at CERN hope that the detection and subsequent study of new
particles could provide answers to some of the
most fundamental questions of the universe, such as why there is an abundance of matter and lack of antimatter, and the make - up of
mysterious «dark matter,» which is believed to constitute over 84 percent of the matter in the cosmos.