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...Quinn combined to finish in 1:27.67—setting a new team and meet record. The Crimson continued to dominate, winning the next three events. Freshman Eric Lynch snagged first in the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing only 0.03 seconds ahead of Princeton’s Robert Griest. Sophomore Sam Wollner also finished fifth. “There’s just one gear for [Lynch] when he swims, and it’s not often that he runs people down,” Cromwell said. “He just kept chipping away the whole race...
...last thing physicist Kim Griest expected was to find what he was looking for. Griest and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley had been scanning the skies for more than a year in search of the mysterious and elusive material called dark matter. The scientists couldn't see it and couldn't say what it was, but they knew it was out there because of its undeniable effect on stars and planets. What could the invisible stuff be made of? The Berkeley group was checking out a theory that dark matter takes the form of large planets or small...
...didn't work out that way. At a meeting in Italy last week, Griest's boss, Bernard Sadoulet, announced that the team had discovered what appeared to be a tiny star or a huge planet, lurking out beyond the visible stars of the Milky Way. It may be just one of trillions of similar objects, whose combined mass far outweighs all the known stars. At the same time, a French group doing its own search disclosed that it had found two more of the dark bodies, making it unlikely that either team had made a mistake. If the discoveries...
...through a computer. The computer's job was to identify the unusual flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful event." After Griest and his colleagues had raised and ruled out phenomena that might be tricking them, they were ready to unveil their MACHO...
There is still a chance that what Griest found was some bizarre kind of variable star, but the fact that the French saw the same flicker in an entirely different type of star argues against that possibility. The next step is to comb through another million observations already stored in the computer. If nothing more shows up, it means MACHOs alone can't account for all the dark matter. Attention would then shift to the hunt for undiscovered subatomic particles. But if several more MACHOs -- Griest won't say exactly how many -- pop out of the computer, then they could...