{"id":137953,"date":"2022-04-10T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/dark-matter-could-be-a-cosmic-relic-from-extra-dimensions"},"modified":"2022-04-10T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T01:04:20","slug":"dark-matter-could-be-a-cosmic-relic-from-extra-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/dark-matter-could-be-a-cosmic-relic-from-extra-dimensions","title":{"rendered":"Dark matter could be a cosmic relic from extra dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-matter-could-be-a-cosmic-relic-from-extra-dimensions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But these particles would interact only weakly with ordinary matter, and only via the force of gravity. This description is eerily similar to what we know about dark matter, which does not interact with light yet has a gravitational influence felt everywhere in the universe. This gravitational influence, for instance, is what prevents galaxies from flying apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main advantage of massive gravitons as dark matter particles is that they only interact gravitationally, hence they can escape attempts to detect their presence,\u201d Cacciapaglia said.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, other proposed dark matter candidates \u2014 such as weakly interacting massive particles, axions and neutrinos \u2014 might also be felt by their very subtle interactions with other forces and fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But these particles would interact only weakly with ordinary matter, and only via the force of gravity. This description is eerily similar to what we know about dark matter, which does not interact with light yet has a gravitational influence felt everywhere in the universe. This gravitational influence, for instance, is what prevents galaxies from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}