Mysterious Anomalies in Earth’s Atmosphere and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter
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identifier citation: Symmetry 17 (1): 79 (2025)
creator: Zhitnitsky, Ariel
creator: Maroudas, Marios
issued: 2025-02-04T17:48:29Z
issued: 2025-01-06
description: It has been recently argued that numerous enigmatic observations remain challenging to explain within the framework of conventional physics. These anomalies include unexpected correlations between temperature variations in the stratosphere, the total electron content of the Earth’s atmosphere, and earthquake activity on one hand and the positions of planets on the other. Decades of collected data provide statistically significant evidence for these observed correlations. These works suggest that these correlations arise from strongly interacting “streaming invisible matter” which gets gravitationally focused by the solar system bodies including the Earth’s inner mass distribution. Here, we propose that some of these, as well as other anomalies, may be explained by rare yet energetic events involving the so-called axion quark nuggets (AQNs) impacting the Earth. In other words, we identify the “streaming invisible matter” conjectured in that works with AQNs, offering a concrete microscopic mechanism to elucidate the observed correlations. It is important to note that the AQN model was originally developed to address the observed similarity between the dark matter and visible matter densities in the Universe, i.e., ΩDM∼Ωvisible, and not to explain the anomalies discussed here. Nonetheless, we support our proposal by demonstrating that the intensity and spectral characteristics of AQN-induced events are consistent with the aforementioned puzzling observations.
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note: Academic Editors: Maxim Y. Khlopovand Konstantin ZioutasReceived: 28 October 2024Revised: 19 December 2024Accepted: 26 December 2024Published: 6 January 2025Citation: Zhitnitsky, A.; Maroudas,M. Mysterious Anomalies in Earth’sAtmosphere and Strongly InteractingDark Matter. Symmetry 2025, 17, 79.https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17010079Copyright: © 2025 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).symmetryS SArticleMysterious Anomalies in Earth’s Atmosphere and StronglyInteracting Dark MatterAriel Zhitnitsky 1,* and Marios Maroudas 21 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada2 Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany;marios.maroudas@cern.ch* Correspondence: arz@phas.ubc.caAbstract: It has been recently argued that numerous enigmatic observations remain chal-lenging to explain within the framework of conventional physics. These anomalies includeunexpected correlations between temperature variations in the stratosphere, the total elec-tron content of the Earth’s atmosphere, and earthquake activity on one hand and thepositions of planets on the other. Decades of collected data provide statistically significantevidence for these observed correlations. These works suggest that these correlations arisefrom strongly interacting “streaming invisible matter” which gets gravitationally focusedby the solar system bodies including the Earth’s inner mass distribution. Here, we proposethat some of these, as well as other anomalies, may be explained by rare yet energetic eventsinvolving the so-called axion quark nuggets (AQNs) impacting the Earth. In other words,we identify the “streaming invisible matter” conjectured in that works with AQNs, offeringa concrete microscopic mechanism to elucidate the observed correl…
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language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/sym17010079
rights: CC BY 4.0
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scholar level: Faculty
scholar level: Researcher
subject: axion quark nuggets
subject: streams
subject: invisible matter
subject: Earth’s atmosphere
subject: gravitational focusing
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90324