Munashe Manyevere, a 4th-year Applied Physics student at the National University of Science and Technology in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, will be presenting his poster on this research at the 32nd IAU General Assembly in Cape Town, from the 6th to the 15th of August 2024.
The title of his poster is Testing the Validity and Applicability of the Massive Photon Theory on the Problem of the Anomalous Flat Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies and you can find the abstract below.
His poster session will be part of Poster Session FM9-3, “Measures of luminous and dark matter in galaxies across time”, scheduled for Thursday, 15 August 2024, between 10:00 and 10:30am.
We are very excited to learn more about Munashe’s work and invite you to join and engage with us at the 32nd IAU General Assembly to learn more about Munashe’s research and the potential implications of the Massive Photon Theory on our understanding of dark matter.
Abstract:
The enigma of darkmatter continues to challenge the scientifc community.Initial hints of its presence emerged from gravitational anomalies observed in the Comacluster by Zwicky(1937), and later,compelling evidence came from the analysis of the Andromeda galaxy’s rotation curve by Rubin&Ford(1970).This work investigates the applicability of the Massive Photon Theory (Nyambuya2014a,b) to the rotational curves of spiral galaxies. We hypothesize that the proposed ”darkfeld” generating the photon’s mass within this theory could potentially explain the observed rotational anomaly and, consequently, represent the long sought darkmatter. Our theoretical framework suggests a specifc range for the photon’s mass (10^-37kg to 10^-38kg), aligning with the predictions of the Massive Photon Theory. Based on these findings ,we propose the intriguing possibility that darkmatter may consist of massive photons.Further research and experimental verifcation are crucial to validate this hypothesis and deepen our understanding of theuniverse’s composition.
