Potential for Application
MQN Guide
Much like GPS guides one along a pathway to a destination, we present 8 “waypoints” of relevant information to guide readers through the overall concept.
Peer Reviewed Science
Is there solid science supporting Magnetized Quark Nuggets as a candidate for dark matter?
Dark Matter
Tell me about dark matter and the Standard Model of Cosmology.
Normal Matter and Quarks
Tell me about normal matter, quarks, and the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Quark Nuggets and Magnetar Pulsars
What are Quark Nuggets?
Aggregation vs. Decay
Since Quark Nuggets are not observed in high-energy accelerator experiments, aren’t they excluded as stable particles and therefore cannot be dark matter?
Detection
If MQNs exist, how can they be detected and have they been detected?
Capture
Since MQNs should be indestructible, can their passage through the Sun slow them down enough to make them collectable?
Applications
If MQNs can be collected, what applications might they enable?
People Make Progress
Aerocapture would slow MQNs sufficiently for collection. Collecting one, suspending it in a superconducting container, and returning it to Earth would be the best way to confirm the MQN dark matter hypothesis and make possible revolutionary applications. MQNs could provide an indestructible source of a magnetic field a billion times larger than humans can currently produce.
Containment of fusion energy and propulsion systems for interplanetary travel are the obvious applications. Preliminary calculations support these potential applications and motivate the current research. The resulting clean source of energy and advanced propulsion would help solve the problem of carbon-free energy on Earth, motivate economic development of the solar system, and help establish a second home or refuge for humanity to counter the threat of another extinction event on Earth.
Cartoon of Dark Matter Drive (DMD). MQN (red) with magnetic field is levitated by superconductors outside chamber and then surrounded by thermonuclear fuel cylinder injected into center of reaction chamber.
DMD with separate plasma thrusters powered by the electrical output from the fusion reactor and power plant.
DMD with thrust from ejection of the plasma through a nozzle by controlling the interchange instability; spacecraft electrical power is obtained by an inverse coil gun that arrests the MQN and returns it to the reaction chamber for the next pulse.
MQN Guide
Much like GPS guides one along a pathway to a destination, we present 8 “waypoints” of relevant information to guide readers through the overall concept.
Peer Reviewed Science
Is there solid science supporting Magnetized Quark Nuggets as a candidate for dark matter?
Dark Matter
Tell me about dark matter and the Standard Model of Cosmology.
Normal Matter and Quarks
Tell me about normal matter, quarks, and the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Quark Nuggets and Magnetar Pulsars
What are Quark Nuggets?
Aggregation vs. Decay
Since Quark Nuggets are not observed in high-energy accelerator experiments, aren’t they excluded as stable particles and therefore cannot be dark matter?
Detection
If MQNs exist, how can they be detected and have they been detected?
Capture
Since MQNs should be indestructible, can their passage through the Sun slow them down enough to make them collectable?
Applications
If MQNs can be collected, what applications might they enable?
People Make Progress
Aerocapture would slow MQNs sufficiently for collection. Collecting one, suspending it in a superconducting container, and returning it to Earth would be the best way to confirm the MQN dark matter hypothesis and make possible revolutionary applications. MQNs could provide an indestructible source of a magnetic field a billion times larger than humans can currently produce.
Containment of fusion energy and propulsion systems for interplanetary travel are the obvious applications. Preliminary calculations support these potential applications and motivate the current research. The resulting clean source of energy and advanced propulsion would help solve the problem of carbon-free energy on Earth, motivate economic development of the solar system, and help establish a second home or refuge for humanity to counter the threat of another extinction event on Earth.
Cartoon of Dark Matter Drive (DMD). MQN (red) with magnetic field is levitated by superconductors outside chamber and then surrounded by thermonuclear fuel cylinder injected into center of reaction chamber.
DMD with separate plasma thrusters powered by the electrical output from the fusion reactor and power plant.
DMD with thrust from ejection of the plasma through a nozzle by controlling the interchange instability; spacecraft electrical power is obtained by an inverse coil gun that arrests the MQN and returns it to the reaction chamber for the next pulse.
Aerocapture would slow MQNs sufficiently for collection. Collecting one, suspending it in a superconducting container, and returning it to Earth would be the best way to confirm the MQN dark matter hypothesis and make possible revolutionary applications. MQNs could provide an indestructible source of a magnetic field a billion times larger than humans can currently produce.
Containment of fusion energy and propulsion systems for interplanetary travel are the obvious applications. Preliminary calculations support these potential applications and motivate the current research. The resulting clean source of energy and advanced propulsion would help solve the problem of carbon-free energy on Earth, motivate economic development of the solar system, and help establish a second home or refuge for humanity to counter the threat of another extinction event on Earth.
Cartoon of Dark Matter Drive (DMD). MQN (red) with magnetic field is levitated by superconductors outside chamber and then surrounded by thermonuclear fuel cylinder injected into center of reaction chamber.
DMD with separate plasma thrusters powered by the electrical output from the fusion reactor and power plant.
DMD with thrust from ejection of the plasma through a nozzle by controlling the interchange instability; spacecraft electrical power is obtained by an inverse coil gun that arrests the MQN and returns it to the reaction chamber for the next pulse.
MQN Guide
Much like GPS guides one along a pathway to a destination, we present 8 “waypoints” of relevant information to guide readers through the overall concept.
Peer Reviewed Science
Is there solid science supporting Magnetized Quark Nuggets as a candidate for dark matter?
Dark Matter
Tell me about dark matter and the Standard Model of Cosmology.
Normal Matter and Quarks
Tell me about normal matter, quarks, and the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Quark Nuggets and Magnetar Pulsars
What are Quark Nuggets?
Aggregation vs. Decay
Since Quark Nuggets are not observed in high-energy accelerator experiments, aren’t they excluded as stable particles and therefore cannot be dark matter?
Detection
If MQNs exist, how can they be detected and have they been detected?
Capture
Since MQNs should be indestructible, can their passage through the Sun slow them down enough to make them collectable?
Applications (above)
If MQNs can be collected, what applications might they enable?
