While scientists search for that, it was revealed to me decades ago. Maybe it was just a dream, but it makes sense to me and explains the universe.
he search is on for some of the flimsiest lumps of matter and energy ever dreamed up by physicists. They are darker than night, barely more substantial than a thought, and named after a laundry detergent. But axions, as they are called, could constitute most of the matter in our universe, forming the unseen skeletons of galaxies and chains of light that adorn the skies of astronomers. Confirmation of their existence would upset some of the deepest theories of nature.
“For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a physicist at the University of Washington who is a spokesman for the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, or ADMX, in Seattle, which is trying to conjure axions with powerful magnetic fields.
Astronomers, too, are hunting for hints that axions exist, by analyzing how black holes spin and the shapes of infant galaxies that the James Webb Space Telescope has brought to light. But so far, nobody has found them.
Success would provide a big clue to one of the grandest mysteries in the cosmos: What is the universe made of?
When that was revealed to me, scientists were claiming that the universe was expanding but would eventually start contracting again, back to the fist-size matter that is now our universe. Well, it seems that now there is no limit to the expansion from the Big Bang.
They are searching for dark matter, which many people would call God, but I prefer to call the Creator. Whether a breath gives Adam life or something else that God matter exists in all of us. When our bodies are no longer sustainable, part of us joins God in his endeavor to create more worlds and more living things as we know them.
Frank Wilczek, a theoretical physicist at M.I.T., and Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas at Austin independently realized that the Peccei-Quinn modification implied the existence of a new particle. Dr. Wilczek named it the axion.
“A few years before, a supermarket display of brightly colored boxes of a laundry detergent named Axion had caught my eye,” Dr. Wilczek wrote in a 2016 essay for Quanta Magazine. “It occurred to me that ‘axion’ sounded like the name of a particle and really ought to be one.”
Dr. Wilczek and others also realized that, like WIMPs, axions of a certain mass had many of the properties required for dark matter. These would have to weigh as little as a few millionths of an electron volt, the units of mass and energy preferred by particle physicists. (By comparison, the electrons that dance around in your smartphone weigh about a half-million electron volts apiece.)
In theory, however, axions and “axion-like” particles could be any size or mass, with drastic consequences for the universe. Different species could play the role of the dark matter that binds galaxies, distort the cosmic microwave background that fills space with radiation left over from the Big Bang, or even contribute to the so-called dark energy causing the universe to expand at an ever-faster rate.
That is what I believe, and it is as believable as any religious or scientific explanation.