…about dark matter.
So dark matter is baffling cosmologists, frantic they go about in search of this elusive entity, to unravel the mysteries of the universe. While I was thinking about it, my mind instantly made connections to events stored in my brain. The first one was about something I watched recently in a television advert and involved a group of high school students who were contemplating the prevalent cosmological theories:
– If the universe is expanding, what is expanding into?
The other was what I’ve read, and made a lasting impression, in a book of Clifford Pickover dealing with higher dimensions. In that book there was a table dealing with the relationship of volume to dimensionality. The values in the table, derived mathematically, were giving a measure of the increase of volume as the dimensionality increases. You can fit an entire universe in a tiny little spec in space.
Along side these, other thoughts about virtual particles spawned out of nowhere, seemingly empty space; string theory with the 20-odd rolled-up dimensions; creating your own baby universe; the multiverse idea.
One way to fit all these together, is to think that the universe is expanding into dark matter and in its expansion merely pushes aside the dark matter is expanding into, where the visible everyday atomic matter of galaxies and stars to represent islands in a sea of dark matter.
Another way is to think that ordinary matter is trapped within multi-dimensional tiny pockets in volumes inversely reciprocal to their three-dimensional size, since the higher the dimensionality of the pocket the more the volume inside the multi-dimensional bubble, the more the mass trapped in them. Since they are tiny, do not reflect light and they can not be detected by telescopes and the matter within them remain non-illuminating and therefore dark matter. But the matter enclosed continues to exert its influence as gravity in the creation of stars and galaxies, gravitational energy, emanated by the matter from its hide-out, undetected therefore dark energy.
The concept of higher dimensionality remain humanely impossible to investigate, except with tools from mathematics. Mathematics tell us that the volume inside a higher dimensional space is larger than its apparent size in our three spatial dimensions universe. Can ordinary matter pass into such a higher dimensional space? Can atoms or other elementary particles pass into such a higher dimensional space? Can the spontaneous bursts of virtual particles in seemingly epmty space, is coming out of such multi-dimensional pockets scattered throughout the entire universe? Can these virtual particles account for the elusive dark matter and dark energy?
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