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arxiv: 2202.12428 · v2 · pith:HVILMQX4new · submitted 2022-02-24 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO· hep-ph

A Straight Lightning Bolt?! Observation of a Predicted Macro Dark Matter Signature

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Recently, four remarkably straight very brief flashes of light were captured on video in Perth, Australia within 0.5s of one another. Straight lightning was recently identified as a prediction of macroscopic dark matter (macros) -- a broad class of alternative candidates to particle dark matter. A sufficiently large macro passing through the atmosphere producing a straight column ofplasma would produce fluorescence, or, under atmospheric conditions conducive to lightning, seeda very straight lightning strike visible to the naked eye. Other explanations are considered, but areproblematic.

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