A Crazy Idea about Dark Matter
posted on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 23:17 by theshadow
What if we're approaching this idea of Dark Matter and Energy from the wrong point of view. What if it was all much simpler than we assumed? I will admit upfront I am not a mathematician, a physicist, or an astrophysicist in fact all I have is a B.S. in Computer Science. This is just one crazy idea I had that I wanted to get out on paper before I forgot it.
Let us first paint a picture, imagine that our universe in all it's splendor and glory exists as the surface of a pond. Imagine that there are lilies floating on the surface of this water. These represent galaxies. Now just like any body of water it has a certain amount of turbulence which give way to hills and valleys. You can imagine that in the depressions galaxies would congregate. Forming clusters of them.
What does this first scene represent? Well I can imagine that this "Dark Matter" doesn't really exist in our dimension of reality. That it's actually part of a substrate in another dimension which provides a sort of topology to our dimension. This would explain why celestial bodies tend to cluster and form together. But does this cover the acceleration we're seeing? How does that work?
Well, imagine that this "Dark Matter" in the substrate is like a body of water. The currents would move objects around and even speed them up! But what are causing these currents? What if the super massive black holes in our dimension of space are causing this turbulence in this substrate. Well, now we have hills, valleys, and currents for which objects on the surface are affected. The galaxies are literally propelling themselves away from each other!
Anyhow... this is all crazy and can probably just be ignored but it was an idea and I just thought I'd share it. Maybe a real mathematician and/or physicist can disprove me. I'm all for that. But you'll never know till you try.
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