• Question: What results have you found underground?

    Asked by anon-244323 to Ed on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 11 Mar 2020:


      Some of our older detectors set world-leading limits on the search for dark matter, although we didn’t find any. So this means we looked at lots of possible areas where dark matter could have been, and definitely didn’t find it; so now we know to look elsewhere.

      We also had an interesting result with life responding to radiation. We know that lots of radiation is bad for you, and the more you get the worse it is. But on the surface of the Earth we get a certain amount of radiation all the time. What happens if we go below this level of radiation- does life improve and grow faster? Or have we evolved to actually need some radiation?
      We ran a study and found that below normal background radiation, growth rate does not change at all! It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get worse.

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