Birefringent Rydberg Dark Matter from Cosmic Dust [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10908


A recently published study of dark matter in distant galaxies has found a direct interaction between unknown dark matter particles and ordinary galactic baryonic matter. It is proposed here that the dark matter is Rydberg Matter composed of water nanoclusters ejected from abundant amorphous water-ice-coated cosmic dust, leading to non-gravitational interactions with ordinary matter. This may also clarify recently observed CMB birefringence, suggesting possible new physics such as quintessence.

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K. Johnson
Tue, 26 Apr 22
25/74

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.12079