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nFA,

I am wondering about some stuff.

if Dark Energy is a superfluid, does that mean that its matter?

and then thinking about antimatter,

if Dark Energy is matter, then would Dark anti-Energy,
really also be Dark antimatter?

also, knowing what happens when matter and antimatter come together (they annihilate each other),

I am hoping that no Dark antimatter Chocolate comes in contact
with my regular matter Dark Chocolate. :)

thank you for any thoughts,
Charlie
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Re: Antimatter

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chasmanian wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 1:56 am nFA,

I am wondering about some stuff.

if Dark Energy is a superfluid, does that mean that its matter?
I've never heard of dark energy being a superfluid. There has been some speculation based on evidence that Dark Matter has normal fluid and superfluid phases. The current favored model for dark energy is that it is just the overhead cost of having spacetime. So it is more like a field. However, quantum field theory requires all fields have particles, so there might be a need to have a dark energy particle. Wilder speculation than I would like to entertain posits the Higgs boson as the particle of dark energy.

and then thinking about antimatter,
if Dark Energy is matter, then would Dark anti-Energy,
really also be Dark antimatter?
if you mean dark energy antimatter? Yes.
also, knowing what happens when matter and antimatter come together (they annihilate each other),

I am hoping that no Dark antimatter Chocolate comes in contact
with my regular matter Dark Chocolate. :)

thank you for any thoughts,
Charlie
you are safe from that since your regular matter chocolate has the electromagnetic interaction and therefore has the chemistry needed to make the molecules of chocolate. dark matter has no electromagnetic interaction so no chemistry and thus there is no dark antimatter chocolate. ;)
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thank you nFA, for your excellent intelligent informative and humorous reply. :)
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