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What if dark matter is primordial bowling balls!
by mike_hock 3y ago
What if dark matter is primordial bowling balls!
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoSo these are called "snowballs" and are excluded as dark matter candidates because we would then see a much larger number of extra-solar asteroids/meteorites. Cf. e.g. section 2 of the reference below. https://web.archive.org/web/20180723032406/http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/307071/pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20180723032406/http://iopscience...
- jiggawatts 3y agoI love how every time someone comes up with some random notion, a scientist can point at a chart and say “we’ve thought of that already and excluded it with experiment CoolName.”