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Description
In this talk I want to discuss the (unorthodox) scenario when the baryogenesis is replaced by a charge separation process in which the global baryon number of the Universe remains zero. In this, the so-called axion quark nugget (AQN) dark matter (DM) model the unobserved antibaryons come to comprise the dark matter in the form of nuclear density nuggets. In this talk I specifically focus on two recent papers, see below. I will argue that a number of mysterious and puzzling observations recorded on Earth could be originated from this new paradigm when the DM is represented by strongly interacting objects. I will also argue that the Ball Lightnings which have been observed for centuries (however, this phenomenon has never been explained by known physics) is in fact a profound manifestation of the same DM physics.
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A. Zhitnitsky and M. Maroudas,
``Mysterious Anomalies in Earth's Atmosphere and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter,''
[arXiv:2405.04635 [hep-ph]]. -
A. Zhitnitsky, ``Ball Lightning as a profound manifestation of the Dark Matter physics,''
[arXiv:2502.02653 [hep-ph]].
