Friday, May 13, 2016
An alternate explanation for dark stuff
Alternate Explanations for Dark Stuff
I understand why Einstein inserted an extra term into his general relativity equation to keep the universe static. He simply didn’t like the idea that the whole universe could be a variable. If he were alive today I doubt he would like the idea of dark matter and dark energy any better, and I have to agree. We are basing a lot of our latest theories on assumptions we have come to accept as facts, more specifically, “the speed of light as a constant” and “mass/gravity equivalence”. Not being a mathematician, physicist or cosmologist I can think outside the box with impunity and, unfortunately, out of necessity, but, without peer reviews to worry about, and having not been indoctrinated, I can wander around outside the box and look for new perspectives, something I’m good at after three marriages and five careers.
Starting with dark energy, (ironically discovered using a space telescope named after the astronomer that first identified galaxies as objects outside the Milky Way that were all receding from each other), we now see the galaxies furthest from the creative moment moving away faster than those nearer in. Our conclusion is that the rate of expansion of the universe is accelerating. We use the red shift of light to measure our observations and confirm them by measuring luminosity from Cepheid variable stars and type 1A novas. In short we are using light as our standard of measurement and are confirming our results by measuring light. Light is all we have. At the center of all this measuring and confirming is an assumption, “the speed of light is constant in a vacuum and has always been traveling at 670 million miles per hour”.
But what if light is a variable? On one of my trips around the outside of the acceptable scientific theory box, I noticed that one side of the box seemed shorter than the others. All of the sides conveniently had a light yardstick taped to them that I could detach and use. I used each yardstick to measure its corresponding side and found all sides the same, but when I used a yardstick from a different side I got different results. The light yardsticks looked alike but when I compared them, they were of different lengths. I also discovered gravitational anomalies that were affecting the length of the light yard sticks and thanked Einstein for making the relationship between light speed and gravity clear.
I tried explaining what I had found to the scientists inside the box but they didn’t want to accept the idea of a universal gravitational coefficient that decreased as the universe expanded making light yardsticks from a more condensed universe shorter that the light yardsticks we use now. If the speed of light is a variable, our measurements, both of red shifts and luminosities, are skewed and are deluding us into thinking the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, making dark energy an unnecessary construct.
Getting nowhere with an alternate explanation for dark energy I resumed my outside the box explorations and encountered two unusual spinning black tops, (like those children play with). Both tops were in a vacuum, one was tiny had a weak gravitational pull and a slow spin rate. The other was large had a huge gravitational pull and a higher spin rate. As I watched the tiny black top a gas cloud drifted by and began to be drawn in toward the toy. As the gas gathered tighter around the top, the gravity at the center increased and the spin rate at the center increased faster than the spin rate of condensing particles further out until the gas was all gathered and the spin rate stabilized into an orbital curve typical of most solar systems with distant objects orbiting slower than objects orbiting closer in.
Then I turned my attention to the large black top as it flipped on its side, as tops do when their spin rate slows, and began to spew gas out of both its polar axis creating a pinwheel of gas and condensing materials rotating in concert with the top.
Both tops were now at the center of miniature galaxies. One of the mini galaxies grew from the outside in. The other grew from the inside out. One rotated as a planetary system, but the other mimicked what we observe in the rotation of spiral galaxies. Could it be that the mysterious super massive black holes we are finding at the center of nearly all galaxies did much more than form from in-falling gas and debris, and instead, early in the creative evolution of the universe, were exploding pieces of the singularity forming galaxies from the inside out, secondary sparks of creation, like the last dazzling spark display at the end of a fireworks show. I’m not even going to try to present this idea to those inside the box, but it is one way to explain away dark matter. I have another explanation for Inter galactic dark matter but I’ve been told to stop walking around the box of secured ideas.
As a tribute to Einstein I am calling my theories, Lambda 1 and Lambda 2