Bizarre 'dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe – what my research suggests
It's embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe. The remaining 95% is famously made up almost entirely of invisible, unknown material dubbed dark energy and dark matter. So even though there are a billion trillion stars in the observable universe, they are actually extremely rare.
The two mysterious dark substances can only be inferred from gravitational effects. Dark matter may be an invisible material, but it exerts a gravitational force on surrounding matter that we can measure. Dark energy is a repulsive force that makes the universe expand at an accelerating rate. The two have always been treated as separate phenomena. But my new study, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, suggests they may both be part of the same strange concept – a single, unified "dark fluid" of negative masses.
Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity – repelling all other material around them. Unlike familiar positive mass matter, if a negative mass was pushed, it would accelerate towards you rather than away from you.
[...] My model shows that the surrounding repulsive force from dark fluid can also hold a galaxy together. The gravity from the positive mass galaxy attracts negative masses from all directions, and as the negative mass fluid comes nearer to the galaxy it in turn exerts a stronger repulsive force onto the galaxy that allows it to spin at higher speeds without flying apart. It therefore appears that a simple minus sign may solve one of the longest standing problems in physics.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday December 07 2018, @01:24AM (1 child)
Yes! The whole mystery of the universe - increasing expansion again after slowing down - is blamed on bloody aliens commute habits at super-light speeds. See, the suckers create space and use the proceedings for fuel without any considerations for future generations of intelligent life forms who will be farther and farther from each other. Truly global
warmingenlargement crime in progress."Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @09:34PM
Bah! Another Federation commie going on about anthropogenic subspace breakdown. It's all a left-wing plot to steal from hard-working Ferengi, while you fly from one end of the quadrant to the other in a private galaxy-class cruiser!