IANAP, but wouldn't confirmation of the existence of supersymmetric WIMPs not necessarily prove that they account for a large portion of dark matter?
EDIT: Not to imply that it wouldn't be a huge deal anyway.
EDIT: Not to imply that it wouldn't be a huge deal anyway.
What I didn't understand until just now was this: if WIMPs interact by gravity why don't they fall into stars and planets, or even form stars and planets of their own? The answer is that they do fall into stars and planets, but just keep going through the middle (since they are not subject to any ordinary interactions) and out the other side. And they can't form dark-matter planets of their own since they don't interact strongly with each other either, so they won't stick together. Neato!
Boy, Newton Totally Responded To Our Planet?
Basically, Nobody Trusts RMS To Out-think PG?
This is amusing: http://www.google.ca/search?q=BNTRTOP
Also amusing is that if you refresh it, you see from the "x minutes ago" part just how often the crawler is picking it up.