Dark Matter Detected, or Not? Live Blogging the Seminar

1:10 PM: As previously reported by Sean, the physics community has been all atwitter recently with rumors that the CDMS collaboration has observed dark matter events. Personally, I have heard rumors that they have either 0, 1, 3, or 4 signal events above the 0.5 events expected from background, with the number being dependent on who is propagating the rumor. The journal Nature has denied that a paper will be published, but everyone seems to agree that a CDMS paper will appear on the arXiv tonight. And now, finally, the day of reckoning has arrived. Members of the CDMS collaboration are giving at least 2 simultaneous seminars this afternoon (SLAC and Fermilab). 2:00 PM PST. The excitement in the air is palpable. Not much work is being done – everyone is pretty much talking in the hallways, trying to pass the time until 2:00. David E. Kaplan is here from ...