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Note for the curious: WIMP simply means "weakly interactive massive particle". And "massive" here means "has mass," not that they're gigantic. Although they're
by da_chicken 5y ago
Note for the curious: WIMP simply means "weakly interactive massive particle". And "massive" here means "has mass," not that they're gigantic.
Although they're theorized to have a mass closer to the Higgs boson than a proton, which is a lot of mass as far as subatomic particles go.
- Sharlin 5y agoAs opposed to MACHOs ("massive compact halo object") where the "massive" actually does mean "planetary to stellar mass".
- gmadsen 5y agois that synonymous with dark matter as described in galaxy structure models?
- binarybanana 5y agoIANAP, but they're (among others, like MACHOs, primordial BHs, etc.) potential candidates for dark matter, yes.