What is Dark Matter? A New Clue!

Scientists may have found clues to the nature of dark matter in a signal from the universe’s first stars.

Authors: Judd D. Bowman, Alan E. E. Rogers, Raul A. Monsalve, Thomas J. Mozdzen & Nivedita Mahesh

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Credits
Host, Producer: Greg Kestin
Researchers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
Writers: Greg Kestin, Samia Bouzid
Scientific Consultant: Douglas Finkbeiner
Editorial input from: Julia Cort, Ari Daniel
Filming: Greg Kestin
Animation and Editing: Greg Kestin
Special thanks: Avi Loeb, entire NOVA team
Media Courtesy of: NASA, ESO, and CERN
Dark matter halo footage courtesy of ESO/L. Calçada.
From the producers of PBS NOVA © WGBH Educational Foundation
Funding provided by FQXi
Music provided by APM

[sanjuansteve]

I think we're in a sea of dark matter and that particles like photons and electrons are orbiting dark matter particles, explaining the polarizable axial or helical apparent wave properties as they travel, explaining the double slit, uncertainty, etc. The amplitude of waves would be the orbit diameter of the particle and the wavelength would be its orbit rotation speed relative to travel speed. Everything in our universe from gluons to solar systems are in orbit with something and moving as apparent waves as they travel in our expanding universe, yet are particles and so it seems like this would be the first assumption, no?

Does anyone know of any specific experiments, calculations, theories, etc that have disproved this possibility? Thx

[conradgarcia]

i don't get it. What makes 27 percent of the universe, and can not be seen like ordinary baryonic matter, surely must be wave/particles! There oughta be dark matter particles that generate that kind of force. There should also be dark energy particles. If dark energy n matter causes the baryonic matter to expand in an accelerating way, then it means that there is force behind that activity. Note: In physics, there is always a particle behind every force.

[FaizKhan-xpmp]

can u pls tell why anything is not certain in universe...is it out equipment fault, our lack of sense or there's something lacking behind...

[ionutpopescu]

they find "still" matter ?
and our kind of matter is fast moving? or warp moving?

[jimforjzs]

well ya know its like light matter but darker....

[axeonvonshadow]

What about advanced alien observers???

[erictheredguy]

LONGER VIDEOS PLEASE... just start getting warmed up

[instrumentenfreak]

What's the matter? :D

What if Dark Matter is just slowed down photons? :D

[Bornloserstrongheart]

So our souls is could be made up of some form of particles

[BC]

Take a shot everyone chumley here says dark 👌

[almirahmedic]

Maybee black holes are new universes and dark matter and dark energy is maybee vakuum

[onderozenc]

Thanks for this inspiring video. I think the dark matter as we understand it in the latest version consists of quantum fields formed in the second phase of genesis after the matter and anti-matter phase and fills the whole universe. Since these are actually the displacement currents with associated spins absorbing in the bumpy sector of the spectrum that aligne in the same direction so as to contribute the positive energy of the cosmos.

[executivesteps]

Try it again. This time cut out the hand jive and keep your hands in your pockets.