Fingerprints of the Dark Universe in Geoscience

Dark matter (DM) dominates our universe, while its nature remains unknown. To unravel its composition is of fundamental importance for all physics. The solid Earth, with its atmosphere, could be the new target and detector of “invisible matter”. Any not well-understood dynamical behavior is of potential interest, e.g., the anomalous annual temperature excursions in the stratosphere and the global electron content of the Ionosphere (with its anomalous behavior around December-January known since 1937) also show planetary relationship, which is the ultimate signature for streaming DM involvement. Because this to happen is not expected within known physics, since a remote planetary tidal force is extremely feeble to cause any noticeable impact. Following this reasoning, here we present novel results combining the dynamical behavior of spatiotemporally occurring atmospheric activity with inner Earth activity like earthquakes. This finding should encourage geoscience to make the Earth the as-yet overlooked observatory for (streaming) DM, even parasitically, because Earth’s dynamic atmosphere and seismic activity are monitored continuously for other reasons. Of note, such an endeavor would be a natural extension of using the Earth to detect conventional cosmic rays. Exotic cosmic particles like anti quark nuggets, magnetic monopoles, and hidden-sector photons are among the most promising candidates. Other as-yet unpredicted DM constituents could make the surprise.