Xenon discovers
dark energy?
Janet Kuypers
10/10/21 (Twitter-length Periodic Table
poem for element #54, Xenon (Xe)
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So scientists created XENON1T,
ultra-pure liquid Xenon
w/ photomultiplier tubes
to detect electron recoil, to be
their most sensitive dark matter detector.
But XENON1T spiked beyond
general background noise,
and now they wonder
if they’ve actually detected
dark energy instead...
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