Physics of the University of California in Riverside suggested that the properties of dark matter, which is invisible for conventional methods of observation, is explained by the existence of a mysterious new type of force. This is reported in an article published in Journal of High Energy Physics.
According to the statements of researchers, the particles of dark matter interact with each other with the help of an unknown “dark” force existing in the fourth dimension in addition to the three known spatial dimensions. According to scientists in a press release on phys.org, although it looks like an exotic idea, in fact, the introduction of a new measurement is a mathematical reception to describe three-dimensional quantum fields. The introduction of additional measurements mathematically equivalent to conformal field theories in a smaller number of measurements, which, for example, underlies the holographic principle of Hofta.
According to the holographic principle, a certain five-dimensional space with a negative curvature (antidesitter space, ADS) is equivalent to the world-border with four dimensions. According to the theory of strings, this boundary, called the marriage, contains particles in the form of strings, and the behavior of these particles is similar to the behavior of particles in ADS with gravity. With this intake of physics, the paradox of information loss in black holes was explained.
The key feature of the theory of additional measurements is that the force between particles of dark matter (in this case of dark photons) is described by an infinite number of different particles with different masses called continuum. On the contrary, ordinary forces are described by one type of particles with a fixed mass. When doubling the distance between two particles in the continuum, the reinforcement force decreases not four times, as in the case of electrical or gravitational interactions, and at eight.
Ordinary matter is not able to directly interact with dark matter, since the “dark” force exists by itself, and therefore the invisible substance is self-absorbing. Nevertheless, the effects of the “dark” force hypothetically can be found in dwarf galaxies.