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Is dark matter attracted to humans?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Yes, but only as a friend.

We don't really know what "dark matter" is, or to be more specific, we're not 100% certain that it even really exists. There's various evidence pointing to it, but the "smoking gun" if you will is galactic rotation (which doesn't operate the way Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation says it should), leaving us with two possibilities:


1. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is either not a law or not universal

2. There's extra mass (aka dark matter) that we can't see


Most scientists are going with 2, though a few think it might be 1: they suggest that as with many of his other equations, Newton's theories are adequate to explain things in certain circumstances (which happen to be the most common and directly applicable to humans), but on the scale of the very big/very small/very fast/etc. they don't work right.


In order for dark matter to be "dark", it cannot interact via the electromagnetic force. It might (again, no one is sure) interact with ordinary matter via the weak force (which is very short range) and would certainly interact with ordinary matter through gravitation (which has unlimited range).


So, dark matter would be "attracted" to you gravitationally, but no more so that it would be to any other lump of equivalent mass.

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