Which Mysteries Might MACHOs and PLANCHOs Solve?

On May 23, 9:47*am, "Robert L. Oldershaw"
wrote:

[sci.chem,sci.fractal,sci.physics.particle, and sci.physics.relativity
are always offtopic. stop ****ing posting there. try sci.astro*]

The recent discovery of an estimated 400 billion unbound
planetary-mass objects in the Galaxy, and previous evidence
for stellar-mass microlenses, prompt the following comments.

What previous evidence for stellar mass microlenses? You keep bringing
this up but lack literature references.


If the Galaxy has huge populations of unbound ultracompact objects
with masses in the 0.1 to 1.0 solar mass range (MACHOs) and
Neptune/Jupiter mass range (PLANCHOs), then several key
astrophysical enigmas might be solved by their existence.
A partial list of those mysteries that MACHOs and
PLANCHOs might explain would include the following.

The composition of the galactic dark matter

Which brings up more questions than it solves, if you think about it
for a moment.

1) How can baryonic dark matter leave an imprint on the CMB, and take
place in large scale structure formation _as_ the first stars are
forming?
2) How can this kind of baryonic dark matter completely escape the
SuperMACHO survey which was specifically designed to look for these
events?
3) How can all these objects escape detection by infrared surveys?
4) How did all these objects form?


The ubiquitous 1-100 day variability of quasars

Uh, no. The variability is not due to lensing.


The factor of 6 excess in the ARCADE 2 radio background observations

Factor of 6 relative to what?


The origin of cosmic rays

Which cosmic rays? There's a spectrum that spans about 23 orders of
magnitude.


The composition of the recently discovered infrared-faint radio
transients

A significant unidentified component of the X-ray background

A significant unidentified component of the Gamma-ray background

Ubiquitous Gamma-ray burst phenomena

The origin of ubiquitous unidentified optical transients

So these objects are bright in the radio, IR, optical, X-ray, and
gamma portions of the spectrum?

Are you SURE you understand what 'dark matter' means?


It would seem prudent at this point to put as much effort into the
dark matter search for “primordial” Kerr-Newman ultracompact
objects as has been expended in the unsuccessful 35-year effort
to find any form of “WIMP” or exotic particle dark matter.

People have looked for primordial black holes, as a trivial literature
search would reveal. Nada.


Robert L. Oldershawhttp://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
Discrete Scale Relativity; Fractal Cosmology