by BeAChooser » Wed Mar 19, 2025 12:26 am
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... nd-forces/
… the past three decades of the search for dark matter have been characterized by null results. For most of that time, researchers have been looking for a single particle to explain dark matter. Yet dark matter might not be one particular particle—it may be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces. In this dark sector, particles would interact through their own independent forces and dynamics, creating a hidden world of cosmology running parallel to our own. There could be dark atoms—made of dark protons, dark neutrons and dark electrons—held together by a dark version of electromagnetism. The carriers of this force, the dark photons, might (unlike our photons) have mass, allowing huge dark atomic nuclei—so-called nuggets—to form.
And, naturally, the author wants more of your tax dollars to explore that. Or perhaps they can use dark dollars?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dark-matter-may-be-a-whole-shadow-world-of-mysterious-atoms-and-forces/
[quote]… the past three decades of the search for dark matter have been characterized by null results. For most of that time, researchers have been looking for a single particle to explain dark matter. Yet dark matter [b]might[/b] not be one particular particle—it [b]may[/b] be a whole hidden sector of dark particles and forces. In this dark sector, particles [b]would[/b] interact through their own independent forces and dynamics, creating a hidden world of cosmology running parallel to our own. There [b]could[/b] be dark atoms—made of dark protons, dark neutrons and dark electrons—held together by a dark version of electromagnetism. The carriers of this force, the dark photons, [b]might[/b] (unlike our photons) have mass, allowing huge dark atomic nuclei—so-called nuggets—to form. [/quote]
And, naturally, the author wants more of your tax dollars to explore that. Or perhaps they can use dark dollars? ;)