Re: Dark energy/matter

["Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@CONNCOLL.EDU>]

> On 08/06/2003 09:43 AM, Michael N. Monce wrote:
> >     What puzzles me is the what I perceive (maybe out of ignorance) as
> >     a
> > lack of lot of theorists rushing to work on this.
>
> What kind of "lack" are we talking about?
> I get 870 hits on "dark matter" in the
> 2002/2003 timeframe at
>   http://arxiv.org/multi

     I did say I may have missed things due to ignorance.  I also found
many articles with many proposed models at the above site.  None of which
were very enlightening.

      What I am hoping for is someone with some expertise in high
energy/astro to fill me in on the most promising models as to what dark
matter ( I saw some suggestions of cold neutrinos) and dark energy are.
For dark energy I saw several papers proposing this or that scaler field,
etc.  I need someone to explain it terms an experimentalist can
understand :) i.e. a 'Physics Today' type summary.


                             Mike Monce
                             Connecticut College