Shining Light on Dark Matter
So instead of singing in the shower, I, on occasion, have profound shower thoughts that I can't remember the instant I step out of the shower. But perhaps the most interesting one, probably the most refutable one as well as being the only one of two I can recall is this: Could dark matter be made of light?
Dark matter, Einstein’s cosmological constant, is of the hypothetical kind and has never been directly observed. It owes its existence to unexplained mass and formation in galaxies but it’s defined as of now as matter that isn’t of proper means such as protons, neutrons, electrons and yadda yadda.
My shower theory is that if dark matter has weight and causes gravitational lensing why can’t it be light? Light is energy and energy has mass. Now light must have an infinitesimal amount of mass but light also can cause gravitational lensing. Not all light given off by our sun or any star gets absorbed into a planet or an asteroid or some space dust. It has to go somewhere, right?
If trillions of stars give off billions of years of photons that aren’t absorbed into common matter, could that explain the missing dark matter mass? What do you think?
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