Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Let's get one thing straight right away- a "theory" = "it's my opinion". That's a piece of scientific language that never made it into your average dictionary. This fact has created an truly ginormous amount of fuzzy thinking and incipient chaos, simply because when people hear the term theory emitted by a scientific "authority", they assume that that person is telling them facts.

The word 'fact' is innocuous and well known. The trouble is that there are a lot fewer facts around than there are theories.

A well-known case of this is the issue of "dark matter" and "dark energy". The prevailing theory at the moment is that for galaxies and galactic-scale structures to exist, there must be dark matter to provide enough gravity to keep things from flying apart and following entropy down the nearest storm drain. Then they had to theorize dark energy in order to fit the observed fact that the universe is still expanding. GAH!

What a mountain they got out of that wormhole...I mean molehill. If you are willing to see how my theory (😄) of the universe-as-bubble fits the facts, you will note that it explains things pretty darn well without adding dark anything. The anti-matter universe is likely plugging along as it should on the negative side of space, just as devoid of "light matter" and energy. I don't have any idea how I can prove any of this. I speculate that you may have to exist outside the universe before you can begin to see what's going on. Disappointing, to say the least. Oh, yes, the anti side? On the inside of the balloon, of course. We have observed white and black holes. Points of equalizing matter inside and out. Or I should say energy. Matter being 'crystal' structures of energy.

This, then, is the ultimate roadblock. We don't have the tools to examine existence in big enough or small enough detail to find real facts. Next time you find yourself near a theoretical physicist, ask him if you can borrow a few ounces of dark matter.

No, we will have to scribble our pictures of the real world in fuzzy blobs of chalk dust on the walls of the cave we call Earth. Our entire civilization of 5 or 10 thousand years is such a ridiculously short time that it's a wonder we've gotten as far as the invention of the bicycle in that time, much less any understanding of the universe.