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Wait till Monday...

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If this stuff exists (and I'm by no means convinced that it does) it's probably more lepton-like than hadron-like. Hadrons have a way of accreting to others & producing potentially observable artifacts, or generating very pronounced secondary effects when they encounter other matter at relativistic velocities. The whole term "dark matter" is problematic in this view; if it was at all analogous to matter as we encounter it in our direct experience, there should be a lot of otherwise unexplainable fireworks going on.

Bottom line is that the papers cited by Mongo seemed pretty convincing. GR effects absolutely have to be considered when observing either very massive or very distant objects, and the dark-matter theorists may not be fully considering alternative hypotheses within accepted physical frameworks.