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View Larger Version | An international supercomputing effort to model the evolution of the early universe created this pair of images. The simulations depict how the distribution of the visible galaxies
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Credit: V. Springel et al./Millennium Simulation (BOTH)
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I guess I'll start by saying that some nomenclature may be slightly differant then the brains that thought up the brane theory. The way I see the brane theories, parellel univeres also cancells out any dark matter problem. A matter of fact the dark matter solution seems to be quite a silly solution for why the universe is still expanding, and accellerating at that.
OK, here I go. When I heard of the brane theory my mind went BAM that's it! I thought of two giant "branes" (masses) with slightly differant properties and both having enourmous gravitational pull, colliding and causing our universe and other "parellel universes" to form. But I don't understand why the branes are being called the "parellel universes". The branes create the infinate number of parellel universes. Everytime a brane touches or comes close enough to another brane... BAM! there's another universe created. I also see a mulitude of branes (All this I've stated so far was pretty much theorized by other theorists. NOT ME!) all of which are floating in a sea of parellel universes. Or the other way around. I also see some of these universes possilby being swallowed up as the branes closes in on that universe. This particular universe would expand toward that brane at a ridiculous speed until all it's matter has been absorbed back into that brane. It doesn't nesseceraly have to be this same brane that created it. Now if two branes approache eachother (even though they would tend to repulse each other) and encounters a universe between them, the universe might be compressed or squeezed out of the way. Scarry to think about but this could be the fate of our universe if and when we notice our universe starting to collapse. If you can follow this, great! I see every brane and universe they create all have slightly differant properties weather it be charge or polarity or dimension etc. to them. Of course there are exceptions and these are the universes and branes that can cause kaos. Where two or more can merge into one or can sandwich another causing it to split in to etc etc. I can also imagine some universes not encountering anything and expands to be giants and for such a vast period of time that all the stars in all the galaxies burn out. But still its matter trying to reach and be absorbed back to the closest brane. Some universes may expand though other universes next to them too. It would be interesting to see if we could find a galaxy from an adjacent universe relatively close to one of our galaxies in our universe that is actually traveling in opposite directions from the galaxy from our own universe.
So this brings me to the "dark matter" topic. As I see it, as the branes separate (ripple) after each creation of a universe (the big bangs), taking into account action reaction principle, then I think it would only be natural for all the matter in each universe to "fall back" to the closest brane to it. Thinking that the branes have the ultimate gravitational pull do to thier masses, the universes would also appear to accelerate the further they expand from thier creation point towards the brane. There isn't any need to try to discover "dark matter" because ther isn't any.
Also, this is the reason we think gravity as being a 'weak force' in nature.
this theory of mine (i think) could be proven if we could some how find a way to measure minute differances in speed and direction of the furthest galaxies. IF our universe is offset from the center of the two branes (or more) that created "us" ( due to one brane moving or rippling faster then the other) then one side of our univrse will be expanding faster then the other. Of course there could be a multitude of branes surrounding us so our universe could have an almost even expansion rate. But IF it could be measured and we could figure out how many branes suround our universe. WOW!
This is my theory as I see it. I've watched alot of shows on tv and permutated everyone elses theory. If I stepped on other peoples toes please let me know. I will not take credit for someone elses theories and I apoligies for the toes I may have steped on.
David C. Stout
Deputydaves@gmail.com
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