{"id":4797,"date":"2014-10-22T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2014-10-17T21:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T02:59:37","slug":"axions-coming-out-of-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"Axions &#8212; coming out of the darkness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick PS to an earlier post on dark matter and one of my favorite candidates to explain it (or at least a big part of it), i.e. the purported axion particles.  My earlier post was entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2013\/12\/06\/the-dark-side-have-we-tripped-over-axions\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dark Side: Have We Tripped Over Axions?<\/a>&#8220;.  Well, another study has come in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2014\/oct\/16\/dark-matter-detected-sun-axions\" target=\"_blank\">indicating that perhaps we have<\/a>.  Some unexpected variations in the x-ray readings from space (coming specifically from the zone not too far from our planet, where the earth&#8217;s magnetic field has its presence) indicate that our sun may be spitting out axions.  These particles would somehow be expected (by the theoretical physicists who understand all the math) to interact with the earth&#8217;s magnetic fields and cause a few more x-rays than otherwise expected.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool.  However, further tests need to be made to eliminate other possible causes.  So, axions aren&#8217;t over the goal line yet, but they seem to be marching up the field.  And I&#8217;m in the stands cheering for them!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick PS to an earlier post on dark matter and one of my favorite candidates to explain it (or at least a big part of it), i.e. the purported axion particles. My earlier post was entitled &#8220;The Dark Side: Have We Tripped Over Axions?&#8220;. Well, another study has come in indicating that perhaps we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4798,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}