Observation of a 27 Days Periodicity in Melanoma Diagnosis

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.