# Dark matter at the heart of the sun... *The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 04 Aug 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *04 Aug 2010, 15:38* "A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core temperature." Cue Twilight Zone theme. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721132407.htm ``` Dan'l Danehy-Oakes ``` --- ### brunians at brunians.org *04 Aug 2010, 15:40 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* What did Gene Wolfe do after the Korean war? What kind of people do the intelligence services prefer to recruit? . > "A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark > matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core > temperature." > > Cue Twilight Zone theme. > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721132407.htm > > -- > Dan'l Danehy-Oakes > _______________________________________________ --- ### brunians at brunians.org *04 Aug 2010, 15:42 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* http://www.submission.org/ . --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *04 Aug 2010, 15:47 · in reply to brunians at brunians.org* You have a positive gift for non-sequitur. > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM, wrote: > http://www.submission.org/ > > . > > > > > _______________________________________________ --- ### Gwern Branwen *04 Aug 2010, 15:53 · in reply to Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote: > "A scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London believes dark > matter is lurking at the centre of the sun and cooling down its core > temperature." > > Cue Twilight Zone theme. > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100721132407.htm Huh. I remember this from Stephen Baxter's Xeelee universe (specifically _Ring_) - the dark matter 'photino birds' were deliberately cooling the Sun to lengthen its lifespan and thus the timespan in which they could reproduce using it (something about dark matter needing high gravity to reach usable concentrations). (Which is, of course, an entirely different mechanic and purpose than black holes in the Sun's core.) ``` gwern ``` ---