[Interview] Can Axions Be Dark Matter?

We still don't know what is Dark Matter. We can see its effects but we don't know what it's made of. However, with their latest publication, Dr Amruth Alfred suggests that dark matter should be made of axions (which are one of the candidates among other particles).

Paper by Dr Amruth Alfred and his team:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01943-9

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• 00:00 Intro

• 02:19 WIMPs vs Axions

• 06:35 Observations

• 15:54 Implications for Cosmology

• 18:54 Where axioms come from

• 23:57 Difficulties with observations

• 27:54 How can the results be confirmed or debunked

• 31:13 Open-mindness in science

• 36:50 Gravitational lenses

• 54:35 Outro

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