Sunday, April 22, 2012

Insights from my hypothesis.

In my hypothesis, mass acts like a vacuum cleaner that sucks in the tiny quantum foam particles that make up space. Those particles reappear at random locations anywhere in the universe. At any distance we are used to, it seems to act like gravity in every way that I know about.

 Inside galaxies where there is lots of mass, gravity dominates. At very long distances, large volumes of empty space would seem to expand, thus looking like a force that pushes galaxies away from each other.

Outside galaxies, there is vast space with virtually no mass, so the expansion force dominates. 
In our neighborhood (the closest 83 galaxies) there is roughly 10 billion times more space outside of galaxies than inside galaxies.  That expansion force pushes against the outside of the galaxies, gently squeezing each galaxy tighter at the same time it pushes them all apart from each other.

Dark Energy and Dark Matter may be the same thing

Consider that Dark Energy is a force that arises within vast regions of empty space that pushes galaxies apart.
Dark Matter is the name given to a force that acts like extra gravity within galaxies. Without that extra force, the edges of the galaxy would fly away.

If you have a force pushing galaxies away from each other, that force needs to push on something. It seems reasonable that the force would push on the outer edge of the galaxies the most, making it look like the galaxies have more gravitational mass than they really do.