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Honest question from a physics novice: Would it be wrong to say the same is roughly true of all of the first 4?

I have heard it is plausible that Dark Matter is merely another particle that fits in the standard model. I've heard it plausible that Dark Energy is e.g. a WIMP or other new particle in the standard model. And, on more-matter-than-antimatter, I imagine _some_ explanations of baryon asymmetry could come from outside the standard model but others (boundary condition, mirror anti-universe) would be fully standard-model-compatible, right?

That would leave only #5 as a mystery: Why is gravity as we know it in general relativity so different (weaker) than the force that a standard-model graviton would predict?




> I have heard it is plausible that Dark Matter is merely another particle that fits in the standard model. I've heard it plausible that Dark Energy is e.g. a WIMP or other new particle in the standard model.

Whoever told you that was getting dark matter and dark energy mixed up.

Dark matter could be "another particle", possibly a sterile neutrino:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino#Sterile_neutr...

Dark energy however is definitely something else. WIMPs in particular are hypothetical dark matter particles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly_interacting_massive_par...




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