{"id":593,"date":"2024-11-20T07:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/?p=593"},"modified":"2024-12-28T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T12:55:34","slug":"593","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a new paper \u201cwe explore the possibility that exotic forms of dark matter could expose humans on Earth or on prolonged space travel to a significant radiation dose. The radiation exposure from dark matter interacting with nuclei in the human body is generally assumed to be negligible compared to other sources of background radiation. However, as we discuss here, current data allow for dark matter models where this is not necessarily true\u201d. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.10521\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2411.10521<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-1024x419.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-1024x419.png 1024w, https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-768x314.png 768w, https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-1536x628.png 1536w, https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-2048x838.png 2048w, https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-28-at-13.44.44-500x204.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new paper \u201cwe explore the possibility that exotic forms of dark matter could expose humans on Earth or on prolonged space travel to a significant radiation dose. The radiation exposure from dark matter interacting with nuclei in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/?p=593\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-matter-2","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universe-origins.dk\/sloth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}