Finally we seem to be moving back into an arena where we can make distinctions between theories by comparing their predictions with reality.

After decades of intensive effort by both experimental and theoretical physicists worldwide, a tiny particle with no charge, a very low mass and a lifetime much shorter than a nanosecond, dubbed the "axion," has now been detected by the University at Buffalo physicist who first suggested its existence in a little-read paper as early as 1974.

The axion has been seen as critical to the Standard Model of Physics and is believed to be a component of much of the dark matter in the universe.

The full article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061206215840.htm

DA Morgan