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Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory
New submitter rossgneumann writes: Dark matter might not be nearly as exotic as most theories suggest. Instead, it could be macroscopic clumps of material formed from common particles already found within the Standard Model of particle physics. This argument comes courtesy of physicists at Case Western University (PDF). Dark matter is usually thought of in terms of exotic, so-far undiscovered particles. The leading candidates are known as weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. But the Case Western theory suggests that there are no dark matter particles, at least none that exist outside of current knowledge. Instead, there are baseball-sized clumps of "regular" matter formed from unexpected combinations of Standard Model particles.
Excuse the oversimplification here but....
What I'm getting is, if they take a bunch of particles together in the right combination, then they no longer emit or react to photons? A) huh? B) so invisibility cloak anyone?
I feel a car analogy is in order here.
Lacking a physics background, I'm not the right person to make it.
This being Slashdot, I will anyway. It's like you went to a car sales lot with 100 fully functional cars on display. You put them all into a (really) huge car compactor, and out comes a baseball-sided chunk of metal, plastic, and glass. Its brake-lights don't work.
What are you talking about? I can clearly see those garments. Why, I'm not sure I've every seen such magnificent rainment, in fact! Such finery, of course, can only be seen by those with the most discerning of eyes, and judgement to match, I daresay.
Surely you can see them as well, can you not?
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
I feel a car analogy is in order here.
Lacking a physics background, I'm not the right person to make it.
This being Slashdot, I will anyway. It's like you went to a car sales lot with 100 fully functional cars on display. You put them all into a (really) huge car compactor, and out comes a baseball-sided chunk of metal, plastic, and glass. Its brake-lights don't work.
I feel like a sports analogy is in order here.
Lacking a physics background, I'm not the right person to make it
This being Slashdot, I will anyway. It's like you have a hockey team with a bunch of good players. You then add a bunch of face-punchers who get in fights and act gritty, and out comes a dysfunction train wreck of a hockey team. They don't show up on the scoresheet.
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It's the physicist clickbait equivalent of
"One strange, old trick helped me lose 165 LBs"
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"Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory"