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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: Airthumbs on 23/03/2012 20:51:07

Title: Does Darklight exist?
Post by: Airthumbs on 23/03/2012 20:51:07
We have Darkmatter as the major component of our Universe, I think.....   if all objects radiate then would Darkmatter be radiating Darklight?
Title: Re: Does Darklight exist?
Post by: CliffordK on 24/03/2012 00:30:26
Is that the same as black light from the disco era?

If light is electromagnetic radiation, then it would fall on the scale from radio waves to IR to visible to UV to Gamma.

For something completely different to exist, it would need a new elementary particle, a dark photon, that interacts with matter differently than normal photons, and hitherto we've been unable to detect.  Possible?
Title: Re: Does Darklight exist?
Post by: syhprum on 24/03/2012 04:17:30
I have been trying to resd up on the possible mass of Gravitons, it gets all too weird and complex they being massive to account for the "cosmic constant" perhaps there is some connection with darklight here.
Title: Re: Does Darklight exist?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 25/03/2012 23:38:13
Gravitons are like photons but the frequencies associated with most gravitational energy are incredibly low and so gravitons have very tiny amounts of energy associated with them.