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minus-squareinterolivary@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago Quantum mechanics explains these ultra-light particles as “fuzzy” because they exhibit wave-like behavior How’s that different from any other particle? Aren’t they all waves in quantum fields?
minus-squareslake-moth@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoI don’t know if this helps but starting at roughly 39:00 of this Fermilabs lecture the lecturer mentions that lighter the dark matter particle is more wave like it behaves and so you have to imagine like a “fluid” of waves that can be macroscopic. edit: PBS Space Time now has video
How’s that different from any other particle? Aren’t they all waves in quantum fields?
I don’t know if this helps but starting at roughly 39:00 of this Fermilabs lecture the lecturer mentions that lighter the dark matter particle is more wave like it behaves and so you have to imagine like a “fluid” of waves that can be macroscopic.
edit: PBS Space Time now has video