I just watched an intriguing program discussing “Dark Matter” and “Dark Energy” and speculation on the role they play in the way the Universe acts and reacts. The first (actually the last) thing we were told in the documentary was that the ‘composition’ (or perhaps more correctly the components) of the universe are made up of three segments of a pie chart. Atoms were said to comprise 5% of the universe, Dark Matter 23%, and Dark Energy 72%. What intrigued me the most was that these phenomena, were discussed as if they were three separate, and by implication disconnected things that needed to be understood as if they were separate, and distinct when I have the temerity to think that they are but three iterations of the Mass-Energy continuum. In my untutored state and extrapolating from myself since no one is there to enlighten me but me, I posited that the universe in not the 13.7 billion years old that the Big Bang adherents believe it to be but that in fact (or in theory, to be more precise) it is much older.
If it’s age is presumed by tracing the trajectory of visible matter back in time and assuming that the rate that the universe in accelerating is a constant, then Dark Matter and Dark Energy must be separate, and apart. In my first flight of fancy I suggested that the cause of the accelerating universe was the gravitational pull of the first masses of star stuff to form from the Big Bang which had gone through its’ life cycle and was at the outer fringe of the known Universe pulling it ever faster to itself.
I learned today that what I suspect is the Dark Matter component of the mass-energy continuum, is not at the fringes as I originally assumed but is disbursed throughout the known universe bending light to identify where it is and it pops up all over the place. To explain it one need I think only posit that star stuff decays at different rates, that black holes which are the stuff of Dark Matter are made up of the stars that died sooner rather than later due to the composition of the fissionable material they were composed of or other interstellar catastrophe, and having become a black hole grew by encountering other black holes and the detritus of the stuff that is not fissionable, sucking it in to enable the black hole to form its’ own singularity and bend space time around it in the same odd ways as had been observed and described.
My flight of fancy goes something like this. When the Big Bang occurred, it did not spew forth a homogenized atomic soup but like explosions generally the stuff spewed out coalesced into different elements and elemental structures which in turn would cause them to live different lives as they ventured forth to form the Universe. Having different forms, they would have different life cycles and the ‘Dark Universe is comprised of the black holes found throughout the known Universe which is referred to as ‘Dark Matter’ because we can see the effect they have on space time, each in their own unique way and the whole concept of matter is that it has an observable effect.
Simplistically the difference between Dark Matter and Dark Energy is that the effect of Dark Matter is quantifiable in varying degrees and on a case by case basis due to the finite effect it has on an observable area of the space time continuum. Where it cannot be shown to have a point of presumed origin but rather its effect is on the Universe as a whole, it is classified as Dark Energy but over however many billions of years it takes, Dark Matter begins the ‘digestion of mass into energy and as the ratio of mass to energy decreases, the ‘attractive’ power of ever consolidating black holes consumes what mass there is until a new singularity is created where all matter is compressed to the point where it explodes into another Big Bang and so on. If there is such a thing as a unified field theory where Einstein’s physics explains the entire life cycle of the Universe I suppose, simplistic as it admittedly is, E still=MC 2. It is upon the premise, that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, then perhaps it is simply the ebb and flow of matter to energy and back to matter which explains the life cycle of the universe as the journey from one state to the other and back again ad infinitum.
The Thoughts of Dwight Owen Schweitzer 