Physicists Think We Might Have a New, Exciting Dark Matter Candidate

Something in the Universe is creating more mass than we can detect directly. We know it’s there because of its gravitational effect on the stuff we can detect; but we don’t know what it is, or how it got here.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Physicists Think We Might Have a New, Exciting Dark Matter Candidate

Something in the Universe is creating more mass than we can detect directly. We know it’s there because of its gravitational effect on the stuff we can detect; but we don’t know what it is, or how it got here.

more…

The candidate culprit is a recently discovered subatomic particle called a d-star hexaquark.

So, basically a type of ordinary matter that is extraordinarily stable.

Hard for me to tell if that is genius or stupidity. Being ordinary I would expect it to have a high interaction cross section with ordinary matter. Unless perhaps … Quantum theory allows ghost particles. If we were to lump all the differences between the graviton and GR into a ghost particle and call it dark matter, I wonder if anyone has thought of that. It would sort of became tautology, the universe then becomes:

QM = GR – (GR-QM) where -(GR-QM) is interpreted as dark matter.

In which case DM isn’t the d-star hexaquark but contains the d-star hexaquark. It’s an idea.