Does dark matter induce formation of more dark matter?

It has been proposed (see this) that dark matter could induce formation of dark matter. This would suggest that dark matter is a phase of ordinary matter and its formation is a phase transition generated by a seed. This supports the TGD view about dark matter as phases of matter with effective Planck constant h_eff=nh₀ having arbitrarily large values and behaving like dark matter: phases with different values are relatively dark.

1. The integer n corresponds to a dimension of extension of rationals associated with a polynomial determining space-time surface as surface in M⁸ mapped to H=M⁴×CP₂ by M⁸-H duality. n corresponds also to the order of the Galois group acting as a symmetry group.
2. Galois confinement suggests a universal mechanism for bound state formation: physical states are composites of particles with momenta coming as are algebraic integers. The components of total 4-momentum would be ordinary integers by periodic boundary conditions. This mechanism has also generalization: one has Galois singlet wave function in the space of momenta with components as algebraic integers.
3. As a rule, particle energies increase with h_eff and the analog of "metabolic energy feed" is needed to prevent the reduction of h_eff to h. In living matter the function of metabolism is just this.
4. The phase transitions increasing h_eff are possible in the presence of energy feed. Bose-Einstein condensation and formation of Cooper pairs (and even states with a larger number of particles, such as 4 electrons as observed recently) could be examples of this. The binding energy of the composite would compensate for the energy needed to increase h_eff. Fermi statistics with algebraic integer valued momenta allows more Galois confined bound states with a given energy favoring therefore the occurrence of the phase transition.
5. Phase transitions quite generally have the property that a small seed induces the phase transition. This would predict that the presence of dark matter favors the emergence of more dark matter.

See the article TGD as it is towards end of 2021

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

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