Tuesday, 15 December 2009

It's a world-wide search for knowledge that's taking place right here in the Black Hills.  In just a few months, the first experiment at the Sanford Underground Lab in Lead will search for dark matter, a particle that makes up 90 percent of our universe but that no one has ever been able to see.  Crews were hard at work Tuesday, building and testing the LUX dark-matter detector before its brought deep underground at the old Homestake Gold Mine.  Once completely built, it will be the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector, placing scientists at the Sanford Lab one giant step ahead of their peers.

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