Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

2023-08-09 Thread 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List
How, would a dark star function? If we found one, in actuality, could we somehow construct a fusion reactor that runs on dark energy. I used to read that axions, a hypothetical particle was the driver of dark matter, energy, flow? Sup?  On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 07:02:42 PM EDT, LizR

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

2023-08-09 Thread Jesse Mazer
Does the idea that colliders should have already found WIMPs depend on the "naturalness" idea at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalness_(physics) which requires supersymmetric particles at those energies in order to solve the "hierarchy problem", or are there independent reasons to think that

Re: Have huge stars powered by Dark Matter been discovered?

2023-08-09 Thread LizR
Very interesting! On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 23:58, John Clark wrote: > > As early as 2012 scientists predicted that the Hubble telescope would see > something they called a "Dark Star". > > Observing supermassive dark stars with James Webb Space Telescope > > They theorized in the early universe