Britain has a chance to solve the universe’s ultimate mystery – if it can get global support for a project 3,000ft below ground in the UK
British scientists have an audacious dream. They want to house a giant international particle detector that would be built 3,000ft underground in a potash mine in Yorkshire. The device, they say, would give them a last clear chance to pinpoint what is the source of one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter.
“We are entering the last-chance saloon to show that these particles are the cause of dark matter, and we want to make sure Britain is at the heart of that work by building the final generation of these detectors,” physicist Professor Chamkaur Ghag of University College London told the Observer.
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