Why Did No One Think of This? Dark Matter Might Just be Normal Matter

Take back your personal data with Incogni! Use code Sabine at the link below and get 60% off annual plans: https://incogni.com/sabine Dark matter is a mysterious substance which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the universe. But physicists have yet to figure out what dark matter actually is. In a new paper, a group of researchers has revived a theory put forth by Ed Witten in 1984, using his so-called “quark nuggets” to explain dark matter. Let’s take a look. Paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/537/2/1056/7964885 👕T-shirts, mugs, posters and more: ➜ https://sabines-store.dashery.com/ 💌 Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg 👉 Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine 📝 Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ 📩 Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ 👂 Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC 🔗 Join this channel to get access to perks ➜ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join 📚 Buy my book ➜ https://amzn.to/3HSAWJW #science #sciencenews #physics #darkmatter