Saturday, March 2, 2013

What is Dark Matter?

With the mysterious name, Dark Matter, you'd think there was something weird going on.  Despite the name, it really isn't that strange.  All matter is defined by the way they interact; where an interaction is defined by an exchange of something.  Quantum matter has three ways it can interact (the three quantum forces) and the interaction is "carried" by quantum particles.  As you move up the universe's hierarchy, interactions get more complicated.   Living matter introduces new ways of interaction, much more complicated than quantum interactions, but interactions just the same.  Just as life emerged from Earth's primordial "soup", quantum matter emerged from the universe's Dark Matter. Quantum matter is Dark Matter which interacts according to quantum interactions (the  three quantum forces).  Dark matter doesn't interact according to quantum interactions (forces).  How does Dark Matter interact?  We don't know; we need studies to determine Dark Matter interactions.

Howard...

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