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"The most likely explanation for dark matter is just undiscovered particles" <--- all valid points but I'd argue that dark matter may actually be strictly the
by iaw 10y ago
"The most likely explanation for dark matter is just undiscovered particles" <--- all valid points but I'd argue that dark matter may actually be strictly the result of yet-to-be-understood underlying fields. e.g. dark matter may not have any particles itself but could be the gravitational of spacetime in a sense
Just a nit.
- johncolanduoni 10y agoUnless the field is not quantized, this is not a distinction. Electrons, protons, etc. are a fields as well.
- iaw 10y agoThe fields that results in the Casimir effect are non-quantized, correct?
- johncolanduoni 10y agoOn the contrary, Casimir forces only arise because the field is quantized.
- Manishearth 10y agoI said exactly this in my comment. There is little distinction between particle and field in this context.