Dark Energy, Dark Matter,

Matter, and SpaceTime

Generation of a hypothesis by Jack R. Woodyard

160105 Some time ago I was watching an episode of How the Universe Works about dark matter. (Of course, I can’t remember either the episode, or the people involved, so that should be checked for proper credit at some later date.) In the episode they showed a map of dark matter made by plotting the gravitational lensing with the matter-lensing subtracted. It looked just like something I had seen in the SEM—fracture surfaces in engineering material. The following is based on thoughts stimulated by that observation.

What do We Know?

Dark Energy:

We know basically nothing about dark energy except it causes the galaxies to separate at a faster and faster rate as time goes on.

Dark Matter:

  1. Dark matter interacts with matter only through gravity.
  2. It can bend light just as regular matter can.
  3. Matter seems to aggregate within clumps of dark matter.

Matter:

We know matter better than anything else, and it seems to be well represented by Einstein’s theories of relativity for the large, and the Standard Model for the very small .

Spacetime:

Spacetime works well for mass, but for charge? My work indicates that it does that too (nu-theory in my data-sets). There is a problem, however. Electromagniltism and mass seem to be somewhat decoupled; i.e. the speed of light is constant.

Idea

Watch an ultra-high-speed video of a hand grenade exploding, then watch one of a balloon bursting.

  1. At first there is a rapid expansion where everything holds together, but just gets bigger.
  2. The expansion period is followed by crack propagation and the fragmentation of the sample.
  3. Once free of its neighbors each fragment tends to contract and crumple.

This is reminiscent of the “big bang.” The initial part of the expansion is smooth. We see no evidence of the dark energy. Only later does the dark energy raise its head.

Thought: We know from observation that crack propagation gets faster as the crack gets bigger.

Next, we note that stars, galaxies, matter-in-general tend to form in regions of more dense dark matter.

Thought: Could this be like the clumping/crumpling effect observed with the shrapnel fragments.

Perhaps:

  1. Dark energy is just crack propagation in spacetime due to the effects of the big bang.
  2. Dark matter is the fragmented spacetime itself.
  3. Matter (stars, galaxies, etc.) is formed by small distortions of the fragments due to the crumpling effect. Very small distortions would be quantized because of the uncertainty principle. Note, quantization is emergent as in the Schrödinger representation.

Problems and possible answers:

Light Propigation

If spacetime is fragmented in this way, how does light propagate through the gaps?

Could this be an example of a binary Hilbert space? Assume that energy-spacetime is one component with matter-spacetime the other. The two subspaces interact weakly. The energy-spacetime is un-fragmented. The weak interaction between the two components, exemplified by the requirement of a large amount of energy to make only a small amount of mass, indicates that each light pulse comes from a particular point in space. If the emitter moves we see another pulse from the new position; i.e. the action is quantized. Thus the speed of light is constant in all matter-spacetime reference frames.

Gravity Waves

Why have we been having so much trouble detecting gravity waves with so much disruption present?

Like sound in a fractured material, gravity waves would not readily pass the fracture surface. This would mean that we mainly have access to those produced in our own small fragment. This would, because of the weak interaction of the two spacetimes, be a vastly reduced amount of energy.

It would be nice if someone could do the calculations to see if this notion is viable, or how it needs to be modified to yield valid, quantifiable results.