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What are WIMPs made of?
WIMPs are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, hypothetical particles which may be the main (or only) component of Dark Matter, a form of matter which emits and absorbs no light and which comprises approx 75% of all mass in the observable universe.
Has dark matter detected?
We’ve never been able to directly detect dark matter in any form, but we know it exists through its effects on the universe, especially through the orbital velocities of stars and gravitational lensing of light around “invisible” objects.
What does an axion do?
An axion (/ˈæksiɒn/) is a hypothetical elementary particle postulated by the Peccei–Quinn theory in 1977 to resolve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). If axions exist and have low mass within a specific range, they are of interest as a possible component of cold dark matter.
Do axions exist?
“We think axions could exist, but we haven’t discovered them yet. You can think of axions as ghost particles. They can be anywhere in the universe, but they don’t interact strongly with us so we don’t have any observations of them yet.”
What is WIMP miracle?
• The WIMP miracle is the fact that weak scale particles make. good dark matter. • It is at the heart of many expectations for connections. between particle physics and cosmology and is the driving. motivation behind most dark matter searches.
What does WIMP mean dark matter?
weakly interacting massive particle
weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), heavy, electromagnetically neutral subatomic particle that is hypothesized to make up most dark matter and therefore some 22 percent of the universe.
Can we buy dark matter?
Some cryptocurrencies, like Dark Matter, can only be purchased with another cryptocurrency on decentralized exchanges. To buy Dark Matter, you’ll need to first purchase Ethereum (ETH) and then use ETH to buy Dark Matter. And to do that, you need what’s called a self-custody wallet.
Can you create dark matter?
Eighty-five percent of the matter in our universe is dark matter. We don’t know what dark matter is made of, and we’ve yet to directly observe it, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider in the world.