Dark Big Bang

[BeAChooser]

Good Grief … Yet Another Gnome!

https://interestingengineering.com/scie ... rious-twin

Dark Big Bang: A mysterious twin to the traditional Big Bang

A team of scientists suggests that a mysterious "Dark Big Bang" may have occurred during the early evolution of the cosmos.

If true, that alternative Big Bang flooded the universe with gravity waves and dark matter particles, and we may be able to detect it today, according to the researchers behind the proposal.

Will this nonsense ever end?

I suspect only when the money runs out.

But this latest gnome is a clear sign of growing desperation on their part.

Here’s the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11579 .

[BeAChooser]

And the Dark Big Bang is not the only new gnome revealed today!

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-astronome ... balls.html

Astronomers go hunting for mysterious q-balls

Our universe may feature large, macroscopic clumps of dark matter known as q-balls. These q-balls would be absolutely invisible, but they may reveal their presence through tiny magnifications of starlight.

But this one might already be a bust ...

In fact the team behind the paper took existing microlensing surveys to see if they could rule out the existence of q-balls. They found that if q-balls exist, they can only comprise up to a few percent of all the dark matter in the universe.

The results aren't conclusive one way or the other, but they do signify one more step towards understanding the nature of dark matter.

Sure they do. (sarcasm)

[Roy]

If the percent is around 12%, the authors could find themselves behind the eighth ball. And seeing a twinkle.