According to Wednesday's report, we are getting close to discovering the nature of the “mysterious
substance that is believed to hold the cosmos together:”
This amendment to
the Big Bang Theory had better be good, for it involves another $2 billion of
your tax money. Regressive physicists declare that they will soon know whether
the missing matter “could be the strange and unknown dark matter or could be energy that
originates from pulsars.”
First, let’s get rid of the idea that the missing matter “could be energy
that originates from pulsars.” Energy
does not exist. It is neither matter nor motion. Energy is a calculation (E=mc2) that
describes the motion of matter. Although it is one of the pillars of regressive
physics, “dark energy,” construed as matterless motion, likewise, neither
exists nor occurs.
Second, dark matter appears to be real. For 80 years,
astronomical observations have confirmed that many galaxies behave as if they
have many times as much mass as can be seen with telescopes. As most of you
know, gravitation between any two objects is dependent on their masses. Thus,
if a small galaxy were to pass by a large galaxy, it would be pushed toward the
larger galaxy. The curvature of its path would be dependent on its mass and the
mass of the larger galaxy. Astronomers calculate the mass of a galaxy by
estimating the number of stars that it has. For instance, our own star, the
Sun, has a mass of 2 X 1030 kg. There are about 200 billion stars in
are own galaxy, the Milky Way. The visible mass is about 4 X 1041 kg
and the total mass is about 3 times that. So, you can see that dark matter is a
problem.
But what is dark matter? In our book, "Universal Cycle Theory: Neomechanics of the Hierarchically Infinite Universe,”
Steve and I speculate that dark matter is ordinary (baryonic) matter. Vortex
theory implies that rotation produces particle size segregation following
Stokes Law. As you can see in our demonstration video at www.universalcycletheory.com,
large particles in a vortex are pushed toward the center and small particles
are pushed away from the center. Dark matter is the non-luminous stuff surrounding
spinning galaxies and galactic clusters. This stuff could be planets, asteroids, rocks, molecules,
atoms, or aether—anything that has mass. I would shy away from proposing aether
as a possibility, because it is the cause of gravitation, except for one thing:
aether too, has (immeasurable) mass, and must be entrained at especially high
densities in the outer edges of any spinning vortex. Note that globular
clusters are more or less spherical with almost no spin. As predicted by vortex
theory, they have little dark matter.
I find the silly comment about the “mysterious substance that is believed to hold the
cosmos together” to be nevertheless intriguing. At first thought, the infinite
universe doesn’t need anything to “hold it together.” Only a finite universe
(as proposed by the Big Bang Theory) would need that. On second thought, this
is a subtle admission that a push, rather than a pull, would be necessary to do
the holding. On third thought, that is exactly the concept that Steve and I proposed
in our book and summarized in Borchardt and Puetz (2012), although we see this “mysterious
substance” as aether-1 and being necessary for the gravitation of baryonic
matter anywhere in the infinite universe.
References
Borchardt, Glenn, and Puetz, S.J., 2012, Neomechanical
gravitation theory ( http://www.worldsci.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6529.pdf
), in Volk, G., Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, 19th Conference
of the NPA, 25-28 July: Albuquerque, NM, Natural Philosophy Alliance, Mt. Airy,
MD, v. 9, p. 53-58.
Heilprin, J., and Borenstein, S., 2013,
Scientists find possible hint of dark matter ( http://m.apnews.com/ap/pm_5030/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=u25UmbFW
), Associated
Press, April 3.