Dark matter would be this lightest particle, called a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.
"This is the decade of the WIMP, " said Michael Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.
If she cuddles her 10-year-old boy when he is hurt, will she turn him into a wimp?
One of the leading candidates is a WIMP, or weakly interacting massive particle.
And whereas Wi-Fi signals wimp out after 100 yards or less, the White Space signals could travel for miles.
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Make no mistake about it: President Barack Obama is not a wimp.
Many have described the user interfaces of products such as the iPhone and Surface as ushering in the post-WIMP (windows-icon-mouse-pointer) era.
Mr Major's job of holding together a fractious cabinet on a vanishing majority was made much harder by his being constantly caricatured as a dithering wimp.
She's a bit of a wimp and sings in one song that her sad little house is "enough, " only to immediately trade it in for a nicer one.
"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.
He predicted the next few years would be remembered as the "decade of the Wimp", and looked forward to dark matter's properties being exposed via a number of investigation strands that included Wimp production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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