Do mirror planets exist in our solar system?
摘要
Mirror matter is predicted to exist if parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature. Currently, there is a large amount of evidence that mirror matter actually exists coming from astrophysics and particle physics. One of the most fascinating (but speculative) possibilities is that there is a significant abundance of mirror matter within our solar system. If the mirror matter condensed to form a large body of planatary or stellar mass then there could be interesting observable effects. Indeed studies of long period comets suggest the existence of a solar companion which has escaped direct detection and is therefore a candidate for a mirror body. Nemesis, hypothetical "death star" companion of the Sun, proposed to explain biological mass extinctions, may potentially be a mirror star. We examine the prospects for detecting these objects if they do indeed exist and are made of mirror matter.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0104251,
title = {Do mirror planets exist in our solar system?},
author = {R. Foot and Z. K. Silagadze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0104251},
year = {2007}
}
备注
11 pages, no figures, LaTeX, aastex style