A Straight Lightning Bolt?! Observation of a Predicted Macro Dark Matter Signature
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2022-03-02 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Recently, four remarkably straight very brief flashes of light were captured on video in Perth, Australia within 0.5s of one another. Straight lightning was recently identified as a prediction of macroscopic dark matter (macros) -- a broad class of alternative candidates to particle dark matter. A sufficiently large macro passing through the atmosphere producing a straight column ofplasma would produce fluorescence, or, under atmospheric conditions conducive to lightning, seeda very straight lightning strike visible to the naked eye. Other explanations are considered, but areproblematic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2202.12428,
title = {A Straight Lightning Bolt?! Observation of a Predicted Macro Dark Matter Signature},
author = {Nathaniel Starkman and Glenn D. Starkman and Harrison Winch and Jagjit Singh Sidhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12428},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Withdrawn for consideration of a possible camera effect causing ordinary lightning to appear straight