Rare Possibility of Dark Particles

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These 5 particles are so strange, we're not sure they exist

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Cosmologists believe our universe underwent a period of incredibly rapid expansion known as inflation.

Inflation is still hypothetical, but it does have one powerful prediction under its belt: cosmic structure.

Some theorists have proposed a companion to the inflaton, dubbed the curvaton.

The curvaton is worth investigating because research in that direction might open up a promising avenue.

In 2015 , physicists got a signal that something might be wrong in a Hungarian experiment.

They found a new particle with a mass of 17 MeV ( 34 times the mass of the electron) Sutter: Most of the mainstream physics community has doubts about X17 .

But there are some relatively plausible explanations for the anomaly that arise from the geometry.

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