Word: axion
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...farewell tour of her illustrious collegiate career, in which her 284 career points have made her the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history. Harbec, on the other hand, hails from St. Hubert, Quebec. The French-Canadian went pro at an early age, playing for the Montreal Axion of the National Women’s Hockey League before heading to St. Lawrence. She burst on to the collegiate scene with 36 points in her rookie campaign, and racked up 61 in a breakout 2005-2006 season where she was named the ECACHL Player of the Year. While not an Olympian...
...Tegmark's "dogs," plus the more esoteric equations of sub-nuclear physics, it turns out that an additional 30% of the needed matter most likely comes in the form of mysterious particles that have been identified only in theory, never directly observed--particles with quirky names like neutralino and axion. These are the mysterious dark matter, or most of it anyway. The cosmic background radiation itself began to shine when the universe was 300,000 years old, but the temperature fluctuations were set in place when it was just a split-second old. "It's pretty cool," says Tegmark...