The Windchime experiment could use gravity to hunt for dark matter ‘wind’
Someday this could be the first direct probe of dark matter using only gravity
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The proposed Windchime dark matter detector would work a bit like a backyard wind chime. Instead of rods swinging in a breeze, billions of sensors would be nudged by the gravity of a dark matter breeze blowing past Earth.
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