Someone is bound to post this, but I'm dying to know so I'll pose the question: what is the cosmological spectral line predicted by Mills' theory? Anything close to 3.56 KeV?
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:02 AM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > NASA Telescope Observes Signal That Can’t Be Explained By Known Physics > > BY BRANDON RUSSELL | AUGUST 2, 2014 > > > http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/08/02/nasa-telescope-observes-signal-that-cant-be-explained-by-known-physics/ > > NASA researchers have stumbled upon a signal in the Perseus Cluster—one of > the most massive known objects in the universe—that they say can’t be > explained by known physics. Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists > were observing 17 day’s worth of data when the mystery popped up. > > “It was a great surprise,” said Esra Bulbul of the Harvard Center for > Astrophysics. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.” > > The Perseus Cluster is described as a huge cluster of galaxies immersed in > an “atmosphere” of superheated plasma. “Imagine a cloud of gas in which > each atom is a whole galaxy—that’s a bit what the Perseus cluster is like,” > NASA says. So, in other words, incredibly, unfathomably large. > > The cluster’s atmosphere is filled with ions, all of which produce a line > in the X-ray spectrum, which can be mapped using the Chandra. According to > Bulbul, when observing Chandra’s data, an unexpected line appeared at 3.56 > keV (kilo-electron volts), “which does not correspond to any known atomic > transition.” > > So what does Bulbul’s finding mean? Since the spectral line doesn’t come > from a known type of matter, researchers are beginning to suspect it might > be dark matter. > > “The menagerie of dark matter candidates that might produce this kind of > line include axions, sterile neutrinos, and ‘moduli dark matter’ that may > result from the curling up of extra dimensions in string theory,” NASA > explained. > > So while the jury is still out, a telescope launching in 2015, dubbed > Astro-H, could help researchers get to the bottom of the Perseus mystery. > Equipped with a new type of X-ray detector, Bulbul believes Astro-H will be > integral for the collection of more accurate data. > > “Maybe then we’ll get to the bottom of this,” Bulbul said. > > For now, theories of dark matter abound, though researchers have admitted > these theories are a long shot. Still, the current line of thinking is that > dark matter consists of over 80-percent of the total matter in the > universe, and the latest mystery reading could explain why such a line > showed up in the first place. > > SOURCE NASA >
