With the city of Lead, South Dakota facing the downfall of its biggest business, the Homestake mine, only one hope remains for its future. That hope lies in a substance known and unknown as dark matter. Dark matter may be impossible to find and may not even exist, but physicists have headed to the small town's 8,000-foot hole to find it.
Lead is not the only city looking to discover one of science's greatest mysteries. Scientists all over the world are counting on this substance to be real in order to avoid invalidating years of subatomic physics research. The find carries with it the power to turn Lead into a booming business town again, but the reality is that another research team could beat them to it.
We're fully prepared that we might not find it ourselves," Shutt said. "But if we as a community don't find it, that will be awfully disappointing.
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