The Vacuum State of the Quantum Field Theory

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Tom hawkins says, black holes have been proposed to be the source of some, if not all, the dark matter. The most popular particle candidates are weakly interacting massive particles, whimps and axions - but they aren't nearly as good at making them in enough abundance for us to know what's going on. In the case of axions, you don't have to try very hard to get the density of exoplanets that we've seen so far. You can just call it 'whimps' or 'wimps', which is almost automatically a type of dark matter. Tom hawkins: I'm getting this is givin too much time to cheach

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