Dark matter as a cancer hazard
Olga Chashchina, Zurab Silagadze
TL;DR
This paper discusses a mirror dark matter model suggesting that rare mirror micrometeorites could pose a minimal cancer risk, expanding on previous dark matter interaction studies with humans.
Contribution
It introduces a specific mirror dark matter model where certain dark matter objects could potentially cause health hazards, which was not addressed in prior research.
Findings
Mirror micrometeorites may lead to diseases like cancer.
Low probability of health hazards from dark matter objects.
Expands understanding of dark matter's potential biological impacts.
Abstract
We comment on the paper "Dark Matter collisions with the Human Body" by K. Freese and C. Savage (Phys. Lett. B 717, 25 (2012) [arXiv:1204.1339]) and describe a dark matter model for which the results of the previous paper do not quite apply. Within this mirror dark matter model, potentially hazardous objects, mirror micrometeorites, can exist and may lead to diseases triggered by multiple mutations, such as cancer, though with very low probability.
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