http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04228
The anthropic principle implies that life can emerge and be sustained only in a narrow range of values of fundamental constants (FCs). We extend the anthropic arguments to a regime of transient variations of FCs. Such regime is characteristic of clumpy dark matter models where inside the clumps FCs can reach values vastly different from their everyday values. We show that the passage of such a macroscopic clump through Earth would make Earth uninhabitable. The periodic table of elements is truncated and water fails to serve as a universal solvent. Anthropic principle enables us to improve existing astrophysical bounds on certain dark matter model couplings by five orders of magnitude.
V. Dergachev, H. Tan, S. Varganov, et. al.
Mon, 25 Apr 22
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Comments: 16 pages, 14 figures