Zioutas, K.

This report addresses the time dependence of normal biomedical processes. The conception rate in humans shows relationships that strikingly coincide with planetary periodicities like the orbital period of Jupiter, the 11 years solar cycle and the 237 days Jupiter–Venus synod, and the combined dependence on Jupiter with Mars’ orbital position. The birth rates are used as conception surrogates based on a data set available from the Minnesota Department of Health. The statistical significance of each independent analysis (far) exceeds 5[Formula: see text]. This result cannot be explained with known science. As with other observations in Physics and Medicine (i.e., melanoma), tentatively the only viable explanation we have is the otherwise invisible streaming matter from the dark Universe we live in. The favored dark matter scenario involves streams or clusters as opposed to an isotropic dark sector. The dark Universe scenario has been the driving idea for this type of work. The high sensitivity of living matter to the tiniest external impact might help identify the nature of the dark matter particles, a major problem in all physics since the 1930s. This work is a model for evaluating other biological processes and mutation rates.

Streams from the dark universe may affect biologic processes on Earth including occurrence of cancer. Here, we have recovered complete daily melanoma incidence rates 1982–2014 in Australia. If there is no other external cause for melanoma, its seasonal rate should be steady with a broad maximum during local summertime due to increased solar UV exposure. The reported melanoma cases show instead: (A) a modulation repeating every [Formula: see text] weeks; (B) a time-dependence which relates also with Moon’s geocentric orbital position, while it does not fit concurrently measured solar activity; and (C) a modulation periodicity strikingly coinciding with the Moon’s sidereal periodicity of 27.3 days, which is fixed to remote stars and not to the Sun. These findings show that the associated cause must be of exo-solar origin, and not only due steady solar UV exposure. A possible interpretation of the finding is the underlying working hypothesis itself, namely the flux of slow speed streaming DM is temporally enhanced due to gravitational (self-)focusing by the solar system. Interestingly, the gravitational focusing effect by the Moon itself towards the Earth covers speeds up to [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]km/s, fitting within the widely assumed velocity distribution of DM constituents at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]km/s. The derived observations for melanoma diagnosis are a novel model-independent finding with potential public health implications and possible relevance for other diseases. The results of this work also serve as accumulating and independent signatures strengthening previous physics claims being at work at the Sun and Earth’s upper atmosphere, inspiring a novel cross-disciplinary approach for the dark matter (DM) paradigm. In future, the 27.3 days periodicity does not necessarily require long-term physical and medical measurements to search for a direct cause-effect relationship. Potential candidates from the dark sector are the highly ionizing anti-quark nuggets, magnetic monopoles, but also particles like dark photons; other as yet unpredicted DM constituents with sufficient impact on the highly sensitive living matter could be at work.