What Is Dark Matter Made Of?
#mwgic #2025 - I was just reading this story about a suspected "ghost galaxy," or "dark galaxy." Apparently it's made mostly of dark matter. Very Plutonian. https://gizmodo.com/a-lightless-galaxy-scientists-discover-a-starless-spinning-ghost-2000589184
A Lightless Galaxy: Scientists Discover a Starless, Spinning Ghost
John:
I gave a couple of my short story books to a lady barista at the coffee shop who took and interest in my writing. Wow, a ghost galaxy made of dark matter. A fantastic thing to visualize.
Dan:
It's both more mysterious and less frightening than a galaxy made of antimatter would be.
John:
A galaxy made of antimatter would indeed be more frightening. Dark matter sounds mysterious without the potential consequences of a rogue antimatter galaxy.
Dan:
One would only hope. I have a theory about the mystery of dark matter, however.
John:
I am most curious to hear your theory of dark matter. I never really understood what it is.
Dan:
Ok, first, the currently-mainstream theory: Dark matter is a completely different form of matter, which makes up 95% of the mass in the known universe. This is theorized based on the rotational speeds of galaxies in the universe we can see.
John:
Fascinating. Didn't know it made up most of the mass in the universe.
Dan:
Dark matter barely interacts with "ordinary" matter such as you and I are made of. It passes right through us. However, it has gravity, and interacts with the mass in galaxies through gravity, and pretty much only through gravity.
John:
Intriguing. To think it passes right through us here on earth but only effects us through gravity. Very mysterious.
Dan:
If "dark matter" doesn't exist, then galaxies would fly apart at the speeds they are rotating, based on the visible matter we can observe across the electromagnetic spectrum. The gravity of the "dark matter" keeps them from flinging all their stars willy-nilly across space and time, like fast-spinning sparklers shooting sparks. They say all galaxies must have a "dark matter halo" in order to exist.
John:
I never knew this. Truly fascinating. The are the glue that holds galaxies together.
Dan:
So that's the current base-level theory of dark matter. But no one has a clue what dark matter is actually made from.
Dan:
That's the mystery.
John:
A true mystery of the universe. Something even scientists cannot explain.
Dan:
So, this is my hypothesis:
John:
Eager to hear.
Dan:
Have you read books and seen TV shows that feature alternate universes?
John:
I have indeed. Star Trek going back to the original series. And more recent ones like the newer movies.
Dan:
Say, Stark Trek where the Federation was savage and the Klingons civilized, or Fringe.
John:
I remember an episode from the original series in which Spock was a malevolent character in an alternate universe.
Dan:
Exactly. So what if these alternate universes are actually an infinite number of other dimensions that make up a connected space-time fabric?
John:
Very interesting. I once read about a German scientist who doesn't go out much because he is afraid something he does in this universe could affect or cause harm to his doppel ganger in a parallel universe.
Dan:
Atoms in our universe are actually at their core, units of energy vibrating in a specific frequency, direction, and amplitude. Other universes might pass through the same space-time in a completely different directions, frequencies, and amplitudes. The quanta of energy can only interface other quanta of energy that match all three characteristics exactly, except for gravity. Despite the separate dimensions, some gravity leaks through from all the other dimensions.
John:
John:
You seem to have come upon a theory that could explain the mystery.
John:
Dark matter is gravity leaking through from other universes.
Dan:
The interaction is what forms the particles that make up atoms, and all the other dimensions in our particular multiverse, out of a limitless number of possible multiverses, all these dimensions vibrate and dance around a point of common core. This is why they are close, and why their gravity can leak into our dimension.
John:
Wow! I really mind blowing theory that truly explains how the multiverses interact and affect each other.
Dan:
But what is gravity? Some physicists think it arises from quantum effects. And quantum effects are impacted by the act of observing them.
John:
Like schrodinger's Cat
Dan:
What if the key act of intention that generates quantum gravity is making decisions? All decisions branching from a common past go back to the same root state prior to the decision being made.
Dan:
And every decision point is fork in the new branches growing from the same past.
John:
Your theory is deeply thought out. Am loving how it is evolving for me as you explain.
Dan:
And how many decisions are happening every billionth of a second in this muliverse?
John:
An astronomically high number. Uncountable by the human mind I'd think.
Dan:
So insane numbers of new universes are being generated with slightly different dimensional characteristics based on a new branching point.
John:
Like the latest Star Trek universe. Except at an exponential rate.
Dan:
But the common point of origin ties them to the places and times they share. Gravity of the past.
John:
Truly mind expanding concept. With an scientific beauty all its own.
Dan:
It's massively poetic, and still doesn't rule out each multiverse being a massive computational simulation on a scale that makes our computers look like an atom in a grain of sand on one beach on Earth by comparison.
John:
A concept to contemplate and ponder. And one with unique wonder and beauty that shows the universes are even more expansive and vast than previously thought.
Dan:
Yet the crux here is intention. A change of intention changes dimensions to adjacent ones.
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Dan:
I have said for years that we exist in this world only because it's one of the ones we didn't die in.
John:
Grand concept that ties together the strings of scientific theory in a poetic way. Each moment of life is a kind of birth of a new universe.
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Dan:
Exactly.
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John:
Wow, now that is truly a massive development in theory from the usual ones. Takes our cosmic journey through life to a whole new level of vastness and wonder.
Dan:
Do you mind if I blog our above conversation? It's the first time I've writtent that theory out in depth.
John:
Oh please do blog it. I think it is very much something that should be read by others.
Dan:
Somehow, I suspect that there must be 42 scintajillion alternate universes possible within our local Matrix.
A Conversation between Daniel A. Stafford and John Hindle, 04-19-2025.
Theory by Daniel A. Stafford
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