Because WIMPs have not been yet discovered, physicists are split over dark matter: Is it WIMPs or is it something stranger?
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But so far, wimps haven't shown up either in the collider or in underground experiments designed to detect wimps floating through space.
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Though WIMPs haven't yet been discovered, the theory isn't dead.
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WIMPs are hypothetical elementary particles that comprise mysterious dark matter.
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Little things like due process, he suggests, are for wimps.
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There are other dark matter candidates beyond WIMPs, of course.
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And yet, the WIMPs are losing power as the reigning theory.
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Relentlessly pursuing productivity only while you are awake is for wimps.
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Which causes voters to think of Democrats as sellouts and wimps.
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At the time, there were few ideas other than WIMPs in play.
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It is, as Trump should recognize, the last refuge of pathetic wimps.
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Speculating about the future price of gold or soybeans is for wimps.
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Truth is for pussies, wimps, everybody's trumpeting falsehoods, it's a cultural cancer.
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We have to call them out as the wimps that they are.
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"He didn't like wimps," his nephew told Philip Weiss of The Times.
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Their efforts have focused on so-called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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You get the impression Brockhoff is pretty sure NASCAR is filled with wimps.
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If WIMPs do exist, they sure aren't keen on interacting with our world.
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As a result firms are simultaneously accused of being timid wimps and reckless idiots.
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These WIMPs would only rarely leave an imprint on the more familiar everyday matter.
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"CB: "...wimps and bitches who think they should parachute out of diamond-studded helicopters.
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And dismissing those who say that he isn't acting presidential as wimps and whiners!
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WIMPs, unlike these scalar particles, would have formed after the inflationary era was over.
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The search continuesThere are many reasons why dark matter could be something other than WIMPs.
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He would yell at the black players from his recliner, calling them wimps or worse.
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How difficult that is likely to be depends on whether the WIMPs are heavy or light.
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It's a possibility constantly under consideration, according to Gaitskell, although WIMPs are still the favored candidate.
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Ultimately, dark matter might look nothing like the standard WIMPs that scientists are currently searching for.
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Today, some of the leading candidates are particles like axions or weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).
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"We have to stop being wimps," said Nathalie Tocci, a senior adviser to the European Union.
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Most are looking for WIMPs—weakly interacting massive particles, the leading contender for a dark matter particle.
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Often, Rabinowitz can trace their suffering back to unfair expectations they've embraced or heard: Only wimps cry.
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One of these potential signatures is produced by the hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs.
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They found that the detectors they evaluated could find WIMPs for certain ranges of the particle mass.
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Hour three in the studio and this is take 37 of hundreds - interdimensional travel's not for wimps.
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The properties of WIMPs just happen fit really, really well into what we know about the universe.
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L. Louise Lucas (D) audibly referred to the three as a "bunch of wimps" from the dais.
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"These pythons made the Tour de France cyclists and water-polo players look like wimps," he says.
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First, when cosmologists modeled the Big Bang and included WIMPs in the calculation, the WIMPs actively participated in the earliest phases of the birth of the universe but, as the universe expanded and cooled, the space between them grew large enough that they stopped interacting with one another.
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Alternatively, heavy WIMPs will interact almost exclusively with iodine atoms at low energies and very little with sodium.
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And if WIMPs were producing all those positrons, they should also be creating a lot of gamma rays.
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If WIMPs haven't been detected by that point, Aprile plans to stop and rethink where else to look.
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WIMPs should be pretty massive as fundamental particles go—about as massive as 100 protons, give or take.
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Several possible WIMPs, though, should be detectable by experiments that, like Super-Kamiokande, involve large tanks of liquid.
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And the last thing you need when you're trying to win is an army of wimps and whiners.
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In Trump Jr.'s world, "triggered" is uttered with a sneer in the direction of wimps and cowards.
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A favorite dark matter candidate emerged, not from astronomy, but from particle physics: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, or WIMPs.
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They're already building LUX's more-sensitive successor, LUX-ZEPLIN, which will search for weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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Doing so would take a much larger detector, given the kinds of WIMPs that have already been ruled out.
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On the plus side, these latest results from LUX definitively showed that prior hints of possible WIMPs were false.
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If WIMPs exist, physicists expect to detect them from the ionization produced through their collision with the argon nuclei.
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They're called wimps, for weakly interacting massive particles, and are hundreds of times as massive as a hydrogen atom.
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They appear to believe that expertise, or even basic familiarity with a subject, is for wimps; ignorance is strength.
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If five-sixths of the universe is potentially made of WIMPs, some of these particles must be hitting the Earth.
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He is searching for dark-matter particles outside the range of masses that conventional theories of what WIMPs are predict.
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" Online, The Huffington Post published a photograph of Republican leaders in Congress with the all-capitals headline "Wimps in Suits.
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The hunt for dark matter continues—and scientists will keep on hunting until they're sure that WIMPs aren't the answer.[SLAC]
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Will there ever come a day when dark matter hunters throw up their hands and declare defeat on the WIMPs scenario?
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Heather welcomes former NFL player Burgess Owens, author of Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps.
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Since WIMPs don't interact normally within matter, all of the otherwise intervening water and rock might as well not even exist.
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My kids have repeatedly been called wimps and not "real men" over the years because they have played flag versus tackle.
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It's always much easier to just call other people wimps and snowflakes — and hope they'll be intimidated enough to melt away.
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Davis is instead looking for a hypothetical particle stronger than the proposed WIMPs but still too weak for regular experiments to detect.
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The Large Hadron Collider located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva has not yet found anything to support the existence of WIMPs.
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Even something of that size, though, would not altogether rule out WIMP-based hypotheses were it to find no evidence of WIMPS.
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And then all the women on the back are quoted with their names, which is really like, what a bunch of wimps.
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For many decades, the favored candidates for dark matter particles have been hypothetical shy things called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.
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Many of the lightest particles theorized in the supersymmetric model are WIMPs and go by names like the gravitino, sneutrino and neutralino.
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Theorists also predicted that we should be able to detect dark matter particles, such as axions or weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).
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It joins a long line of other experiments hunting for "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs, the most popular dark matter particle candidate.
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By casting himself as uniquely able to protect Israel against its enemies, he often treats those who say otherwise as wimps or traitors.
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Until very recently, the Trump trademark in foreign policy was that diplomacy was for wimps and military force was the preferred macho threat.
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If WIMPs are light, DAMA should see them colliding with light sodium atoms at low energies much more often than with heavy iodine atoms.
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"At least 15 years ago, when people had conversations about dark matter, they used the words 'dark matter' and 'WIMPs' interchangeably," Hooper told Gizmodo.
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Vats of liquid xenon or other detectors buried deep underground are hunting for the most popular idea, called WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles.
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He is the ego in conflict with the super-ego of the political establishment: Negotiations and treaties are for wimps, and so are razors.
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Stopping short of labeling drivers as wimps, Hamilton made it clear that driving Formula One is no longer the physical test it should be.
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There are lots of different experiments around the world, with a dizzying array of acronyms, all looking to be the first to directly detect WIMPs.
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Over the last few years, however, physicists have started to look at other possibilities after some critical tests failed to confirm the existence of WIMPs.
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Rather than resorting to calling men wimps, we should be glad review boards are doing their jobs, and we should continue to hold them accountable.
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But there are still more possible kinds of WIMPs that haven't been ruled out before the experiments reach the neutrino floor, and the search must continue.
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For decades, the most popular explanation for such phenomena was that dark matter is made of as-yet undiscovered weakly interacting massive particles, known as WIMPs.
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But some are frustrated that WIMPs haven't yet been discovered, either by these big underground experiments or the Large Hadron Collider, an atom smasher in Switzerland.
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And scientists can imagine ways to actually look for WIMPs, unlike some of the more far-out theories, which are much harder to test in experiments.
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There was just one problem, according to some media reports: The new method won't be available anytime soon because the men in the study were wimps.
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The LUX experiment searches for WIMPs via collisions with atoms within a third-of-a-ton tank of cooled liquid xenon surrounded by super-sensitive photodetectors.
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If hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are real, their collisions with regular matter may have left fossil traces in the depths of the planet's rock record.
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"'This training is not for wimps,' as my grad student, who was a former football player, used to say," said Amishi Jha, an associate professor of psychology.
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WIMPs are a class of hypothetical elementary particles that hardly ever interact with regular baryonic matter and don't emit light, which makes them exceedingly hard to detect.
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Astrophysicists have long believed that dark matter is probably made out of particles that don't readily interact with ordinary matter—so-called "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs.
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LOS ANGELES — Here in Southern California, we are usually wimps when it comes to cold weather, but on Thursday it started snowing and it was actually quite magical.
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Even though he's been hunting for WIMPs for nearly three decades now, physicists have explored just a fraction of the possible ranges when it comes to interaction rates.
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The most popular solution to solve this mystery are WIMPs, particles that interact too weakly with regular matter to be detected by our telescopes or any other observing equipment.
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Each successive search without a discovery shows that WIMPs, if they exist, must be lighter or less prone to leave a mark on normal matter than had been assumed.
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Even if WIMPs do leave an observable scar, the main concern for paleo-detectors will be ensuring the fossil tracks are really coming from dark matter particles, Slatyer said.
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But here's the thing: Even if Mr. Trump wimps out, as he is doing on so many other issues, he may already have done much of the threatened damage.
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Those who chose to flee the nominee have been called "wimps" and "wusses," and former GOP candidates have been attacked for going back on their pledge to support the nominee.
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One especially promising candidate is "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs, that consist of a hypothetical particle that causes such a tiny jostle on atoms that scientists haven't seen it yet.
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But I wonder how much of this that the media's doing is to play off and to corral people who are already wimps and linguini-spined when it comes to kids.
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WIMPs have been popular because not only would the particles account for the majority of astrophysical observations, they pop out naturally from hypothesized extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Some leading particle candidates for dark matter include axions, neutrinos, and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), but so far every experiment that tries to find them has come up empty handed.
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This summer sees Jonsi and his ragtag group of bores and scruffs jet around the world, playing to huge crowds night after night, bringing thousands and thousands of wimps to tears.
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Establishment wimps like Jeb Bush framed their stance as only wanting to allow Christian refugees into the country, but Trump didn't even try to give his reactionary proposals a humanitarian gloss.
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Particle colliders and detectors buried deep underground have failed to find conclusive evidence of any dark matter candidates, the most popular of which are called WIMPS, or Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles.
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"I always say it's like graffiti for wimps," said David Healey, 41, whose Quackula figurines (duck Draculas) are made with Howard the Duck heads and hand-sculpted feet, hair and ears.
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In elementary schools we were described as either Tom Boys or Girly Girls or something in between, but for many of my young male friends they were either boys or wimps.
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The LUX measurement is a powerful new bit of information for astronomers to consider and has added to the general confusion, forcing scientists to take another look at ideas other than WIMPs.
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Instead out outfitting a lab with a large volume of liquid or metal to observe WIMP recoils in real time, they would look for fossil traces of WIMPs banging into atomic nuclei.
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Scientists for the last decade have been most interested in the idea of WIMPs, or Weakly Interactive Massive Particles, that would be perhaps around the size of the heaviest existing subatomic particles.
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But unlike those of iron-60 and WIMPs, the mark of muons would not remain in the fossil record, making the direct connection between muons and extinctions all but impossible to prove.
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The next morning at breakfast, in the bright tropical sunshine, we were all cracking up about being wimps as we helped ourselves to scrambled eggs and thick slices of warm banana bread.
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In other words, we have a very good, very deep theory of astrophysics that accounts for dark matter perfectly given the existence of a particle matching perfectly the theorized properties of WIMPs.
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The LHC, meanwhile, is conducting experiments that should produce cross-sections of particles that may point to the presence of WIMPs, but it has so far come up empty-handed as well.
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These experiments, which look for telltale nuclear activity in different types of materials, have published a string of null results, ruling out large classes of WIMPs that would be compatible with DAMA's signal.
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WIMP detection is premised on WIMPs having sufficient mass to smack into an atomic nuclei with enough force to create a bit of light or heat, which can then be registered by the detector.
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For example, in the summer, the highly sensitive LUX—which uses liquid xenon in a South Dakota mine as its detector—announced it had seen zero WIMPs, after looking for more than a year.
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Searching for fossil recoils may be a good way to search for low-mass WIMPs, said Tracy Slatyer, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not involved in the research.
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"How much truth he's speaking to his own party about the resistance movement being a bunch of wimps — not actually getting in and fighting on ideas, for example, just taking cheap shots," he said.
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Besides WIMPs, there are other candidates for dark matter, including MACHOS (dim stars or black holes that give off little or no radiation), axions (theorized chargeless, very low mass particles), sterile neutrinos, and gravitinos.
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When scientists calculated how much mass should be tied up in the relic WIMPs, they found it was five times as much mass as ordinary matter, exactly the amount of dark matter seen by astronomers.
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"There's still a lot of parameter space for WIMPs, but at the same time we have to explore other possibilities as well," Laura Baudis, University of Zurich physicist who works on the XENON collaboration, told Gizmodo.
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We've gotten quite used to hardened warriors like Rick, Michonne, and Daryl, psychopaths like the Termites, Wolves, and Saviors, and pitiable red-shirt wimps like Hilltop and most of the Alexandrians over the past two seasons.
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" Her focus on today's anxious, micromanaging parents, who "worry too much and provide their children with too little space to grow," places her book squarely among familiar jeremiads, like Hara Estroff Marano's "A Nation of Wimps.
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From Canada to South Korea, these experiments are trying to detect WIMPs from space with super-sensitive detectors buried deep underground in isolated chambers to stop any extra particles, like cosmic rays, from interfering with the setup.
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The third of the trio, 368kg of xenon in an experiment called LUX, in a former gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, also failed to find WIMPs before it was shut down in May 2016.
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Where the wild WIMPs are (and aren't)This past spring, physicists have met at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California and the Moriond Conferences in Italy to discuss the state of the dark matter search.
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If it's a sport you can definitely do outside, but you're too scared too—indoor soccer, that sort of thing—just in case you get rained on or hit by a van, then sorry, this sport is for wimps.
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The most widely accepted hypothesis is that dark matter is composed of WIMPs—fundamental subatomic particles that are too weak for us to notice here on our regular-matter Earth, like a breeze too light to nudge a brick house.
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Soon, though, Aprile expects her team to be firmly on top: The third-generation XENON experiment—larger than before, with three and a half metric tons of xenon to catch passing WIMPs—has been running since the spring, and is now taking data.
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The results further refine the limits on dark matter-normal matter interactions possible for theorized weakly-interacting massive particles—WIMPs, far and away the most popular dark matter theory—which is a good thing, generally, but still nothing like an actual detection event.
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While the taking of such sick time is routinely perceived to be "for wimps," it appears that Clinton's health strategy – seeking care and taking time off the trail this week -- is the more prudent one, at least when it comes to longevity.
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In their paper, Baum, Freese and Kelso show that WIMPs can still generate the observed annual modulation if they have a twist: an innate preference for protons over neutrons that will lead them to interact more often with sodium than iodine (which has more neutrons).
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After 20-month search period, a key dark matter detection experiment has officially come up empty-handed, casting doubt on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), which have been far and away the leading explanation for one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.
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At the Donald Trump rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Wednesday night, three young girls — who call themselves the USA Freedom Kids — belted out a pro-Trump ditty, "Freedom's Call," which called on America to reject wimps and embrace Trump, the man who can make America great again!
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Craig Yoe and his wife Clizia Gussoni scour old romance comics for stories about women who hate their boyfriends for wanting to be circus clowns, stories about women who fall in love with hippies, commies, wimps, or abusive brutes, and they put them in these awesome books.
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A 2012 paper by Katherine Freese from the University of Michigan and Christopher Savage from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics considered what harm WIMPs would have on human beings, and found that they wouldn't be dangerous, or at least not any more worrisome than other daily radiation exposure sources.
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Even if Americans have short memories and are tempted back into a vision of reality TV–style foreign policy where it's all about imposing machismo and cost-benefit is for wimps, I have found, anecdotally but consistently, that no one outside of America has forgotten how it went last time.
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The "adults in the room" on whom the Europeans had pinned their hopes, grey-haired generals or businessmen with an affection for diplomacy and stability, have largely been turfed out in favour of men like John Bolton, Mr Trump's national security adviser, who has urged regime change in Iran and thinks rules are for wimps.
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This is not to absolve the amazing cowardice displayed by the salty wimps that want the NFL to prevent players from making a silent, subtle protest on behalf of the dignity of black lives; the polls splits show that these fans tend to be older and whiter than the rest, which will surely surprise someone.
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Axions, a hypothesized fundamental particle of matter relating to the strong nuclear force, aren't the only proposed candidate for dark matter, but as searches for WIMPs (weakly-interacting massive particles)—far and away the favored proposed particle comprising dark matter—come up empty, axionic dark matter has become a more and more plausible scenario.
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Among the candidates for dark matter are subatomic particles with goofy names like axions, gravitinos, Massive Astrophysical Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs), and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WMIPs.) D'Angelo and his colleagues at Gran Sasso have placed their bets on WIMPs, which until recently were considered to be the leading particle candidate for dark matter.
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For a long time, the phenomenon physicists have thought would appear to save the day is a conjecture known as supersymmetry, which comes with the prediction of a whole new set of elementary particles, known as wimps, for weakly interacting massive particles, one of which could comprise the dark matter that is at the heart of cosmologists' dreams.
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On the plus side, del Toro -- who can be prone to overacting -- is refreshingly restrained as the taciturn killer, with the very busy Brolin (in his third movie in as many months, after roles in the "Avengers" and "Deadpool" sequels) also delivering as the gruff cowboy waiting to be turned loose -- hey, rules are for wimps -- by the bureaucrats pulling his strings.
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"The real issue at this point is that our society does not respect sleep, and we have grown-ups that brag about how, 'We can get on with five hours of sleep,' 'We can drink that Red Bull and soldier on,' 'Sleep is for wimps,' 'I'll get enough sleep when I'm dead,'" said Maribel Ibrahim, co-founder of Start School Later, a nonprofit focused on increasing public awareness about the relationship between sleep and school hours.
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Zexal: Seasons 1-2HolesIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1-11Lucky Number SlevinNightcrawlerThe RiteDollhouse: Season 2The Queen of VersaillesAmerica's Funniest Home Video Kids: HolidazedAmerica's Funniest Home Videos Kids: Animals with Attitude: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos Kids: It's Tough Being a Kid: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos Kids: Playtime Ain't for Wimps: Season 1America's Funniest Home Videos: New Collection D: Nincompoop NationJeff Dunham: Arguing with MyselfDance Academy: Series 1-3Che: Parts 1 & 2Amores PerrosPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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Aside from Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE and Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE—and a few others— Democrat leaders are utter wimps.
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Here are just a few places in The Times to start: • The Divided States of America • Why Calls for a 'National Conversation' Are Futile • Polarization Is Dividing American Society, Not Just Politics •Bipartisanship Isn't for Wimps, After All • Why Facts Don't Unify Us • The Age of Post-Truth Politics and a response from a teenager — a Student Summer Reading Contest Winner, Michelle Kim — who wrote: After reading this op-ed piece, I am more aware of my own attitude and more wary of this polarization — the "us" versus "them" mentality that often reduces comments sections into battlegrounds, when passionate ideals are not tempered by a willingness to explore possibilities in order to approach fact.
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But it turns out people aren't just being wimps: it was literally colder in part of the US and Canada today than it was on Mars, according to data from the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station on NASA's Curiosity rover: Today's forecast high temps across much of Canada and the upper midwest are colder than the last reported high from Mars by Mars WeatherDecember 15, 2016 Of course, there are some caveats: this is only true if you compare the high temperatures in the midwest to the high temperatures on the Red Planet, and temperatures on Mars will dip much lower than the lows here on Earth to -103 F. It also does not mean, as some science deniers love to claim, that climate change doesn't exist: even with very cold winters, or even the occasional record low temperature, global temperatures still put 2016 on track to be the hottest year on record.
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