by Enzo » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:09 am
Like the ending scene of Men In Black.
I would have to say there was something to cause the BB. But maybe not in this universe. I personally think there are more dimensions in play in our existence, but they are all part of this universe. What other universes exist? WHo knows.
Here is as good a place as any for my sophomoric notion of the universe. We are baffled by dark matter and dark energy. The dark matter we cannot detect, but infer its presence. It seems to have a major effect on things. My own little hypothesis is that dark matter is just regular matter removed dimensionally from our perception. An example:
Consider "Flatland", a two dimensional universe - a plane. A line across it is a wall to those living there. I can put my face an inch from their plane, and they would never see me, they cannot perceive the third dimension. Now what if I put a large bowling ball of lead a millimeter above their plane. They could not perceive it, however, it would have a gravitational attraction to things in the plane. On a vector basis, the things in the plane would really be attracted to the center of the ball, so at an angle out of hte plane, but there would still be a large component of that attraction along the plane. The closer one got to the ball, or to the epicenter of the ball in the plane, the stronger the gravity. Until you got close. Right direct under the ball, the attraction would be 90 degrees to the plane and thus zero to them. I imagine a volcano shaped curve of attraction. To them, gravity grows as you near the epicenter. but there would be some point in a ring around that where the attraction would start to fall to that center zero. As the vector moves to the perpendicular. So the gravity curve looks like a cross section of Mount Fuji.
Does that make sense? Now what if we in our three dimensions cannot perceive some fourth dimension right "next" to us, and some large mass is there just out of sight. Call it the unseen part of the galactic iceberg. Some galaxy has stars we can see, and all this mass we cannot, because it is simply away from our three dimensions in a fourth direction we cannot see. Things are still attracted to that galaxy gravitationally, like my big lead ball. I propose we look for a gravity profile in a volcano shape. For example dark matter might seem to attract things towards the center of a galaxy, but perhaps right in the center of it, there are anomalous differences. A donut hole in the gravity. More precisely, a hole in the excess gravity we now accord to dark matter.
There may be some fundamental reasons why this idea is totally implausible. But I don;t know them. There may be some cosmological theory which precludes it, or other implications that are unmet and so disprove it. But for now, it works for me.
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