After commenting on the enthusiastic scientist at CERN, I thought I should bring your attention to this discussion of dark matter, which tells you just a little bit of why the LHC is going to be useful.
although it is important to remember that there are other well-motivated dark matter candidates, such as the axion
Can you get unmotivated dark matter candidates? Are anti-protons just really, really depressed? The LHC will tell all.



