[Interview] Can Axions Be Dark Matter?
Universe Today Podcast
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The Implications of Axion's for Dark Matter
The candidate particle for wave dark matter is called axion's. The person who proposed this was Frank Wilczyk, the Nobel Prize laureate in 2006. And then he saw it and said, look, I'm just going to name it axion. So that's where that's where the name comes from. That's amazing. Physicists are, you know, sometimes they have questionable names, but sometimes they're they're pretty funny. It's better than a bacronym.
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