They then run policy experiments on the model, asking what policymakers might have done to prevent the bubble forming, or at least stopped it building once it was clear there was one.
Time and again experiments conformed neatly with the Standard Model, giving no inkling of what might lie beyond it, to the chagrin of many in the field.
The scientists involved in the project say the results coming from the spectrometer -- which are much more accurate than in past experiments -- are consistent with a fairly basic dark matter model, Flack said.