Scientists believe that smashing heavy atoms close together in a particle accelerator can create strong magnetic fields that literally pull dark matter out of empty space.
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GERMAN physicists are proposing a new theory for the creation of dark matter. By accelerating atomic nuclei in an accelerator, pairs of axions, hypothetical particles, could be created from the quantum vacuum.
The amount of gravity in the universe is significantly greater than that which could be produced by all known, visible matter.
Axions are considered as possible building blocks of dark matter, but have not been proven so far. A theoretical analysis now shows that strongly accelerated atomic nuclei could change the axion field in such a way that pairs of real axions arise from its vacuum fluctuations. Ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions could in principle offer a test possibility, even if the expected yield would be small and the detection would be difficult. Dresden [.…
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