Talk:Gravitational focusing

Dubious

I have added a dubious tag to a statement that Earth is subject to this dark matter focusing. The reference is fairly dubious as its only independent citation is by a comment contradicting it. In the US white people are apparently affected with melanoma by the relative position of Mercury, but black people are not affected, and in Australia people are affected with a correlation of the position of the moon on the celestial sphere. This sounds interesting but unproven, and a stretch to say it is anything to do with dark matter. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:45, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and removed the link - the study isn't nearly supported enough for a claim that weird to be WP:DUE here. That said, the idea that dark matter in the local phase-space is affected by gravitational focusing by the sun, moon, and earth is treated with seriousness by the most recent Snowmass Process report[1], which indicates it's not a completely farfetched idea. PianoDan (talk) 18:15, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]