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fuzzy dark matter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables
fuzzy -dark- -mat-ter
IPA
46
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of dark matter with very low particle mass, with concomitant very large de Broglie wavelength (such as wavelength on the order of kiloparsecs), resulting in a population of overlapping waves, and concentrations of this dark matter modeled as fields and interference patterns, over astronomical and cosmological distances.

Uncountable

Etymology

From the lack of definition (fuzziness) due to the wave-like nature of fuzzy dark matter, unlike the particle-like of hot dark matter and cold dark matter.

Usage

Derived Forms

FDM

Frequently Paired Words

axion Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid

Questions

What does fuzzy dark matter mean?
A type of dark matter with very low particle mass, with concomitant very large de Broglie wavelength (such as wavelength on the order of kiloparsecs), resulting in a population of overlapping waves, and concentrations of this dark matter modeled as fields and interference patterns, over astronomical and cosmological distances.
Where does fuzzy dark matter come from?
From the lack of definition (fuzziness) due to the wave-like nature of fuzzy dark matter, unlike the particle-like of hot dark matter and cold dark matter.

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