Could Photosensitive Emulsions Make Dark Matter Visible?

Abstract

The article "Possible detection of tachyon monopoles in photographic emulsions" by Keith Fredericks  describes in detail interesting observations by him and also by many other researchers about strange tracks in photographic emulsions induced by various (probably) non-biological mechanisms and also by the exposure to human hands (touching by fingertips) as in the experiments of Fredericks. That the photographic emulsion itself consists of organic matter (say gelatin) might be of significance as also the fact that practically all experimental arrangements involve di-electric breakdown (nerve pulses in the experiments of Fredericks).  For particle physicist, it is very difficult to accept the proposed interpretation as particle tracks and even more difficult to agree with the identification of particles as  tachyonic magnetic monopoles. A more natural interpretation seems to be as "photographs" of pre-existing structures - either completely standard but not well-understood or reflecting new physics associated with the living matter.  In TGD framework, the identification as images of magnetic flux tubes carrying dark matter and associated with the emulsion - less probably with the source -  is natural and the images would be very much analogous to those obtained by Peter Gariaev's group by illuminating DNA sample with visible light.