The Star Spot

The Star Spot


Episode 174: Fuzzy Dark Matter, with Lachlan Lancaster

November 24, 2019

Quantum mechanics is strange. Until recently we could comfort ourselves with the belief that its odd properties were safely confined to the world of the microscopic. But what if quantum mechanical effects were suddenly magnified to cosmological scales. That’s a possibility, according to a new theory of dark matter known as fuzzy dark matter. Today we’re joined here at The Star Spot by Lachlan Lancaster, co-author of a new paper that sheds light on these questions.