I watched the link video as a lunch distraction from playing with AI. I can’t recall if I saw or read anything about the broader implications for dark matter.

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    1 year ago

    Does dark matter clump up like normal matter? I thought it was a lot smoother so wouldn’t create waves of relevant size.

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      1 year ago

      It ultimately depends on what particle the dark matter is made of. It’s been a long time since I did any dark matter work, but from memory heavier candidate particles are more capable of forming structure because they move more slowly.

      I never ended up pursuing that as a research area, so I’d take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, I just did a small project for a professor once.