fuzzy dark matter

noun

Etymology

From the lack of definition (fuzziness) due to the wave-like nature of fuzzy dark matter, unlike the particle-like of hot dark matter and cold dark matter.

Definitions

  1. A type of dark matter with very low particle mass, with concomitant very large de Broglie…

    A type of dark matter with very low particle mass, with concomitant very large de Broglie wavelength (such as wavelength on the order of kiloparsecs), resulting in a population of overlapping waves, and concentrations of this dark matter modeled as fields and interference patterns, over astronomical and cosmological distances.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fuzzy dark matter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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