Is this particle the key to dark matter?

The physicist Alex Sushkov explains why the hypothetical axion particle is a good candidate for dark matter.

In his lab, Sushkov uses atoms as miniature compass needles to search for dark matter. Researchers have long leveraged magnetic resonance to spy inside bodies and identify chemicals, but Sushkov has been pushing the technology to its limits. In his lab at Boston University, Sushkov has developed one of the most targeted magnetic resonance experiments to date, aiming to detect a hypothetical dark matter particle called the axion.

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[JROD]

Dunning Kruger has entered the chat...

[salamander]

The more I try to learn about quantum physics, the more I get jumbled up.

[dasmith]

A particle notorious in the history of physics for never yet having been observed. This correlates perfectly as a dark matter candidate. Hahaha!

[astronomy-channel]

Axions! I agree. Further strengthened by the fact that the particle colliders have failed to detect WIMPS, despite now decades of trying.

[ManuelGarcia-wwgj]

Assuming axions actually exist and are indeed the drk matter that Zwicky pointed out in the 193s, how do they acquire their mass? Is the Higgs Mechanism the majority source of mass or are they like the nucleons that derive the majority of their mass from the strong nuclear force?

[nealdaniel]

The tiny variations seen in the CMB are not enough to explain the speed of early galaxy formation, so the variations must be amplified. Our big bang and our CMB may be shared by other universes along with a cloud of particles. Stellar bodies from other dimensions would be too thin to emit or reflect energy, but still be massive. This dark matter would tend to cluster in coincidental places across the multiverse reflecting the patterns in a shared CMB.

[mracorismg]

Doesn't time reversal symmetry prove absence of axions instead? I don't understand why time reversal symmetry is not expected

[science_ibr]

Why axions can't interact with photons??

[googleacc]

I bet we will find out that dark matter is in fact a very simple thing

[spiritedthinker]

Ooh ooooh ooooh, my turn to invent a particle! It solves all the other problems in particle physics, it's called the poketron. It works like putty, but in all your convoluted math to fill the gaps!! Brilliant, right?!??

[saltybits]

Magnetism binds the universe together.

[mkb]

Inventing something to "explain" something else which was itself proposed to explain yet another something. It's almost like quarks within a hadron, when sufficiently stretched they snap into a new quarks and additional anti-quarks.

[JimConnelley]

Why would axions be more concentrated within the galactic sphere?

[gregor-samsa]

Can t it be that every "field" is a Type of own Dimension... gravity, interacting with Higgs field and the other - undefined - for dark matter?

[shawns]

The fundamental phenomenon of dilation explains dark matter. Mass that is dilated is smeared through spacetime relative to an outside observer. It's the phenomenon our high school teachers were talking about when they said "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light". This doesn't mean mass increases, it means mass becomes spread throughout spacetime relative to an outside observer. A graph illustrates its squared nature, dilation increases at an exponential rate the closer you get to the speed of light. A time dilation graph illustrates the same phenomenon, it's not just time that gets dilated.
Dilation will occur wherever there is an astronomical quantity of mass because high mass means high momentum. This includes the centers of very high mass stars and the overwhelming majority of galaxy centers.
The mass at the center of our own galaxy is dilated. This means that there is no valid XYZ coordinate we can attribute to it, you can't point your finger at something that is smeared through spacetime. In other words that mass is all around us.
Dilation does not occur in galaxies with low mass centers because they do not have enough mass to achieve relativistic velocities. It has been confirmed in 6 very low mass galaxies including NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 to have no dark matter. In other words they have normal rotation rates. All binary stars have normal rotation rates for the same reason.

[JohnSmith-utth]

This is literally an overcomplicated version of my physics theory I posted 8 years ago

[throwaway]

There's no dark matter. In Physics you can have reflection, absorption or transmission. Anything else is magic.