(August 15, 2016 at 6:52 am)Alex K Wrote:Greatly appreciate the new info and avenues of study!(August 15, 2016 at 6:45 am)Arkilogue Wrote: Very interesting, thank you! So in this explanation, the condensation of quark-gluon plasma into hadrons "leaves behind" a certain amount of energy in a universe wide field and this is the 5x more dark matter influence on the rest of matter? Is there anything in this theory that directly predicts the 1 to 5 ratio?
Yes, that's roughly what would happen if that were the correct explanation: The energy in the axion field gets "frozen" once quantum chromodynamics develops a condensate. The 1:5 ratio is not exactly a completely fixed prediction, but it is plausible because the energy scale of the Axion field for which this ratio comes out correctly is very close to the energy scale which would explain the Neutrino masses and unification of forces, and these things *could* be related, but that's still speculative. Fortunately, the axion hypothesis is testable directly via detectors, so we don't have to rely on these somewhat shaky theoretical arguments.
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
