>>11829806Last week researchers in Italy stated that they may have detected axions in their XENON experiment. Or possibly a bit of tritium got into their tank. They are setting up a larger experiment now, so hopefully they will be able to confirm things either way in a few years. Of course it is theoretically possible that dark matter is some sort of particle that only interacts via gravity, thus we will never be able to directly detect it. I agree with you on the MOND stuff - plenty of interesting ideas have been tossed in that direction, but between observations like gravitational lensing ocuring in a way that doesn't line up with visible matter, or galaxies that have similar amounts of visable mass having very different rotation curves, they don't seem that workable.
