Searching for Shipwrecks and Dark Matter

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

English - February 22, 2020 15:12 - 53 minutes - 3.12 KB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Sunken treasure is the stuff of so many great stories from your childhood
You might envisage Intrepid explorers, nasty pirates or adventurous archaeologists diving deep to search for priceless bounties from long lost galleons.
Well now you can add particle physicists to that list. So why is science scouring ancient shipwrecks?
Alan Duffy is Professor in Astrophysics at Swinburne University of Technology