What Dark Matter Particles Would Mean

If dark-matter particles are discovered — WIMPs, axions, sterile neutrinos, or any other species that accounts for the observed 27% — the defragmentation mechanism is dead. KS-42.1 fires. The argument hands you the weapon: find the particle. Conversely, if dark-matter particles are not found despite increasingly sensitive searches, the mechanism gains confidence. The search has been running for approximately forty years with no confirmed detection. The axioms predict there will not be one, because there is no particle to find — the 27% is not a thing, it is a process. This is the sharpest empirical test, and it requires no new experiments, only the continuation of those already running (LZ, XENONnT, PandaX, ADMX, CASPEr, and successors). Every null result is evidence. Every non-detection narrows the space for alternatives. If you want to kill this paper, find the particle.