Sep 23, 2026 · 28 min · 7 segments
This week, Chris digs into a curious signal in the hunt for dark matter that may be a sign of a new particle responsible for 85% of the matter of the universe; and Linden and Kate breeze through the…
And I don't know if you've seen some of the news lately, but there was, I guess, for those who follow this, yet another physics discovery, hint of dark matter discovery.
Did you see this in the
news?
Yes, I was so hoping that you would talk about this,
Chris.
Yeah, I feel I am duty-bound to cover this kind of story sometimes.
You know, sometimes you just pick and choose what sounds interesting.
Sometimes you go, oh, I really do need to talk about this.
Thank you.
Please.
So what did I see? A hint of dark matter discovery?
Yeah, well, this is the concept.
So this basically, they have found a signal in a particular experiment that may be a new particle that could be dark matter.
Who's they and what's the experiment?
Well, this is where we have to go back to.
Do we all know what dark matter is to start us? It's the opposite of light matter.
Good answer.
Good answer.
Well, possibly.
I suppose you could look at it that way.
So, okay.
So dark matter is what we believe is most of the matter in the universe is stuff that we can't see, essentially.
And not just can't see because it's not lit up, but because it's something that we don't know what it is.
We can't detect it in any way.
And I don't know if you've seen some of the news lately, but there was, I guess, for those who follow this, yet another physics discovery, hint of dark matter discovery.
Did you see this in the
news?
Yes, I was so hoping that you would talk about this,
Chris.
Yeah, I feel I am duty-bound to cover this kind of story sometimes.
You know, sometimes you just pick and choose what sounds interesting.
Sometimes you go, oh, I really do need to talk about this.
Thank you.
Please.
So what did I see? A hint of dark matter discovery?
Yeah, well, this is the concept.
So this basically, they have found a signal in a particular experiment that may be a new particle that could be dark matter.
Who's they and what's the experiment?
Well, this is where we have to go back to.
Do we all know what dark matter is to start us? It's the opposite of light matter.
Good answer.
Good answer.
Well, possibly.
I suppose you could look at it that way.
So, okay.
So dark matter is what we believe is most of the matter in the universe is stuff that we can't see, essentially.
And not just can't see because it's not lit up, but because it's something that we don't know what it is.
We can't detect it in any way.
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