{"id":191205,"date":"2024-06-14T06:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/primordial-black-holes-dark-matter-and-apollo-era-technology"},"modified":"2024-06-14T06:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:24:21","slug":"primordial-black-holes-dark-matter-and-apollo-era-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/primordial-black-holes-dark-matter-and-apollo-era-technology","title":{"rendered":"Primordial black holes, dark matter and Apollo era technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smMrjKU7aWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is dark matter primordial black holes? If so, could we find them using Apollo-era technology on the moon?<br \/> A new paper suggests the answer may be yes to both. I interviewed David Kaiser, one of the paper\u2019s co-authors, former student of inflationary cosmology pioneer Alan Guth, and now Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Science at MIT.<br \/> For the preprint of the full paper:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2310.16877\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2310.16877<\/a><br \/> and other press about the paper.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v46\/n\">https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v46\/n<\/a>\u2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/exotic-blac\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/exotic-blac<\/a>\u2026<br \/> And some other related papers:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract<\/a>\u2026<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.02168\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2303.02168<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312.17217\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312.17217<\/a><br \/> a timeline is below.<br \/> 00:00 introduction.<br \/> 00:57 primordial black holes.<br \/> 3:05 particle dark matter and modified gravity.<br \/> 6:33 LIGO and EHT<br \/> 11:03 window of opportunity.<br \/> 15:16 observaitonal signatures.<br \/> 20:30 Apollo era tech.<br \/> 25:19 Star Wars.<br \/> 25:54 the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is dark matter primordial black holes? If so, could we find them using Apollo-era technology on the moon? A new paper suggests the answer may be yes to both. I interviewed David Kaiser, one of the paper\u2019s co-authors, former student of inflationary cosmology pioneer Alan Guth, and now Professor of Physics and Professor of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191205","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\/191205","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}