I had a random idea pop in my head while watching a video describing the relationship between radiation’s energy density and entropy. And I’d like to run it past some people who have a deeper understanding of physics than I.
What if dark matter follows an inverted curve? What if we can’t see it because while energetic it emits less radiation and then will become brighter and hotter as it loses energy? Perhaps it even has reversed entropy too and becomes more energetic over time.
This might be crazy, but dark matter is pretty crazy itself. Am I completely off base, or could that line up with any real theories? Maybe it could work with antimatter instead of dark matter?
Worst case I’m just curious and wrong, best case I inspire someone to discover something new. Thanks
I suspect that’s a good definition of Dark Matter based on current understanding. Something that doesn’t fit in the current laws.
That’s what’s so exciting, if we can find some way, any way, to interact with it other than gravity, we’ll have something to base a new definition on, along with new laws of physics! 😃
Sadly as it only seems to interact via gravity, that might not happen and best we might get is a good mathematical model to describe it.
It’s not that it doesn’t fit. You can write whatever math you like.
But then you’ll need to match it with observations. That’s where the problem is. You can write a thousand of dozens theories that match the current observations, but they all will be wrong.
Here, for example, a pretty neat paper by an educated author that connects negative temperature with dark matter:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360324627_Dark_Energy_is_Dark_Matter_below_Absolute_Zero_in_Black_Holes .
What of it? It doesn’t help humanity. Just another page in the almanac of what dark matter could potentially be