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Could it be explained if what we interpret as radioactive decay was in fact matter interacting with dark matter particles?
by PepeGomez 10y ago
Could it be explained if what we interpret as radioactive decay was in fact matter interacting with dark matter particles?
- 21 10y agoI'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but radioactive decay is perfectly explained today, without any need of dark matter particles.
- arenaninja 10y agoI mean, it could. But I haven't seen any mention that the conditions of this experiment match the interstellar conditions that indicate Dark Matter (which is usually the angular velocity of galaxies not matching the theoretical prediction). There's smarter people than me working on dark matter, but one thing to consider is that dark matter may well be simply that -- matter that we're unable to see for inane reasons such as being on a plane of vision that we're unable to see, similar to the unified model of an active galactic nucleus: http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~ski/skipicture-1.html http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~ski/skipicture-1.html. Again, exciting, but too soon to really say anything. Everyone should be suspect of the claims, it's just par for the course in physics.
- Natanael_L 10y agoObservations of accelerated particles' decay follow relativity, they decay with slower frequency relative to the observer. If dark matter collisions were the cause we shouldn't be observing that.
- PepeGomez 10y agoThat's a good point.