On the nature of dark matter
Astrophysics
2010-12-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Dark matter in the universe seems to be one of the most important puzzles science has to face in this moment. In this essay we point out that dark matter could be a spin-0 fundamental interaction of Nature rather than a simple particle. From this hypothesis follows that dark matter behaves just as standard cold dark matter at cosmological level while still in good agreement with observations at galactic scales. This new interaction could be one of the scalar fields predicted by higher-dimensional theories.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406194,
title = {On the nature of dark matter},
author = {T. Matos and L. A. Urena-Lopez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406194},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
3 pages, no figures. Honorable Mention in the 2004 Awards for Essays on Gravitation (Gravity Research Foundation)