Dark Matter And The Curved Universe

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Dark matter doesn't matter unless it is a stand-in for something else. Namely, since we can't see the biggest forces pulling millions and millions of galaxies into nothingness, maybe we are seeing what happens if everything is flowing back towards the Big Bang? An interesting mindgame worth playing. (Thanks for bringing this up, JSmith!)

&hearts So, not only are smaller star systems falling into the gravity pools of larger galaxies and galaxies are colliding and merging with each other all over kingdom come but galactic CLUSTERS are slamming into each other, too?

Dark matter and normal matter have been wrenched apart by the tremendous collision of two large clusters of galaxies. The discovery, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, gives direct evidence for the existence of dark matter.

This composite image shows the galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, also known as the "bullet cluster." This cluster was formed after the collision of two large clusters of galaxies, the most energetic event known in the universe since the Big Bang. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/M.Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.)

"This is the most energetic cosmic event, besides the Big Bang, which we know about," said team member Maxim Markevitch of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
These observations provide the strongest evidence yet that most of the matter in the universe is dark. Despite considerable evidence for dark matter, some scientists have proposed alternative theories for gravity where it is stronger on intergalactic scales than predicted by Newton and Einstein, removing the need for dark matter. However, such theories cannot explain the observed effects of this collision.

OK, a mere 'collision' of two streams of galaxies is nearly as big as the Big Bang? I looked at the data and it is a big lighting up of a lot of something! But the question really is, what the hell drew not just one stream of millions of galaxies but two streams, into one spot? And they heated up everything but didn't dissolve? And where the hell are they going, anyway? Eh?

None of this makes sense even with dark matter thrown in. Is everything on the same plane and streaming towards the same point? Huh? Yes? and what is this 'point'? Is is singular? A singularity that is a mirror of the original Big Bang? Why does Nature love circles, rebirths, why does She adore pulling things together and then blowing them up again?

My own feeble mind suspects She has Her usual iron rules concerning all this. She hates eternity and forever. When She was trapped in Eternity, She BLEW UP. Thinking about all this as mythology or putting a human face on all this makes it much easier to think about the meanings of all the data that is flowing here.

&hearts The problem isn't the existence of 'dark matter' but explaining why everything is flowing in 'rivers' and 'clusters' and 'clumping' and other odd things which shouldn't be possible in an expanding universe.

Dark Matter Exists
Sean at 11:52 am, August 21st, 2006

The great accomplishment of late-twentieth-century cosmology was putting together a complete inventory of the universe. We can tell a story that fits all the known data, in which ordinary matter (every particle ever detected in any experiment) constitutes only about 5% of the energy of the universe, with 25% being dark matter and 70% being dark energy. The challenge for early-twenty-first-century cosmology will actually be to understand the nature of these mysterious dark components. A beautiful new result illuminating (if you will) the dark matter in galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56 is an important step in this direction. (Here’s the press release, and an article in the Chandra Chronicles.)

A prerequisite to understanding the dark sector is to make sure we are on the right track. Can we be sure that we haven’t been fooled into believing in dark matter and dark energy?

It is certainly a mirror image that we can't see the Big Bang but it is shrouded and veiled in Darkness. There are many theories about this. But then, the Great Attractor and this other end of the Universe where the Bullet galaxies collided, the force at work is equally occulted. We can't see it, we can only sense it.

&hearts Here are some postings from NASA concerning our half of the Universe, concerning the Great Attractor.

Galaxies dot the sky like jewels in the direction of a mass so large it is known simply as the Great Attractor. The galaxies pictured above are part of a cluster of galaxies called ACO 3627 near the center of the Great Attractor. Previously, this cluster of galaxies, also known as the Norma Cluster, was largely unstudied because dust in the disk of our own Galaxy obscured much of its light. The Great Attractor is a diffuse mass concentration fully 250 million light-years away, but so large it pulls our own Milky Way Galaxy and millions of others galaxies towards it. Many of the galaxies in ACO 3627 are slowly heading towards collisions with each other.

We aren't just moving towards this thing, we are flowing 'in a river' towards it just like we see all over the Universe, when we look around us, we see streams of galaxies flowing in rivers! Because of this, we must assume they see us the exact same way. The odds of there being some entities in any of these other galaxies watching us is actually rather high since the number of stars in these millions of galaxies are in the billions per galaxy if we consider the larger ones! Wave hello to them! Hi.

I bet if we made contact with them, they would immediately run a trade surplus with us and we would have to ask them for loans. In zrrrixles.

&hearts Here is the Great River of Galaxies yet again.

This mass migration includes the Local Group, the Virgo Cluster, the Hydra--Centaurus Supercluster, and other groups and clusters for a distance of at least 60 Mpc up and downstream from us. It is as if a great river of galaxies (including our own) is flowing with a swift current of 600 km/s toward Centaurus.

Location of the Great Attractor

Calculations indicate that ~1016 solar masses concentrated 65 Mpc away in the direction of Centaurus would account for this. This mass concentration has been dubbed the Great Attractor. Detailed investigation of that region of the sky (see adjacent image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3627) finds 10 times too little visible matter to account for this flow, again implying a dominant gravitational role for unseen or dark matter. Thus, the Great Attractor is certainly there (because we see its gravitational influence), but the major portion of the mass that must be there cannot be seen in our telescopes.

It really irks me that we can't see any of this. And this makes me very suspicious. Why would It be Dark? Who turned off the lights? Seeing all this with childish eyes makes one ask interesting questions. Nature, we know for a fact, loves mirror images. She loves to have dualities, She is addicted to opposites. The very fundamentals of Her schemes involve polarizations.

So why not here? Eh? Heh.

Are those distant galaxies seeming to be moving in giant rivers away from us and towards 'It' really disappearing into nothingness? Or are we just unable to see them because they are circling around the other side of Creation and we will suddenly 'see' them when we slam into them????

&hearts Here is a PDF of a paper discussing the 'rarity' of the Bullet galaxies colliding.

I remember when the first pictures of two galaxies colliding were obvious when seen by the new Hubble telescope. I said back then, 'If this is true, this means ALL galaxies are colliding!' And I was right. We are all on collision courses with each other and something we can sense but not see! Since this is universal this means it is one of Nature's beloved 'iron clad laws.' And being that, it means it has a shape to it, it is not 'flying apart at the seams forever' because She hates this idea. Comes from being a mother and all that.

&hearts Here is a movie comparing two galactic clusters that have tremendous disturbances in their forces and thus are lighting up the cosmos around themselves.

This sequence compares the physical size of the cavities found in MS 0735.6+7421 and the Perseus cluster, another well-known galaxy cluster with cavities. These two clusters are at very different distances -- Perseus is about 250 million light years away and MS 0735 is almost three billion light years away. To make a direct size comparison, the Perseus cluster is shrunk to simulate its appearance at the farther distance of MS 0735. From this comparison, it is obvious that the cavities in MS 0735 are much larger than those found in Perseus.

Do note the shape of both of these huge cluster's centers. Each one has a mirror polar opposite. There is this VOID in the center of each of these things. What if this is the model of the Big Bang? And we are riding on the outer surface of one of the twin bubbles? If we go through Nature's creations here on our tiny planet, we see the same impulse: things mimic each other, they mirror themselves outrageously which is why we have two arms, two legs, two eyes, etc. We have one heart and this displacement interfaces with other forces within and without our bodies. Trees like to be symetrical, sea shells are symetrical, the planet is symetrical with a north pole and a south pole. The Moon is round, too and so is our sun! And so on.

So I propose, the Universe is also symetrical. And like all systems we see, it is compact and tends to curve. Mother Nature isn't masculine, She likes round things. Curvaceous. Repeticious. Suspicious, too, for that matter.

And if there is 'dark matter' you can bet there is 'white matter' which we can't see...yet.

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[blues]

My understanding of what this dark matter might really be is that it may simply be relatively "ordinary" matter that does not interact with electric charge, magnetism, strong or weak nuclear forces, etc., but only with the gravitational force. So it may simply be "pure mass." Since it does not interact with these forces, it would not "cloud" our view of other "ordinary" events behind it, except that it would exhibit gravitational lens effects. I suppose clouds of it could increase the mass of stellar objects, inducing novas, and things like that.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

We can't see the future because we can't see the same thing in the past.

We can't 'see' the Big Bang directly nor the period of 'Darkness' that lasted rather a long time...we can't see the things we are falling into, either. They are invisible for whatever reason.

Thinking about the universe as a dual-loop system is quite different from thinking about it as things flying away from each other as fast as possible.

[JSmith]

Now *this*... is a good article! Thank you, Elaine!

"But the question really is, what the hell drew not just one stream of millions of galaxies but two streams, into one spot?"

How about plain old random motion? There's enough stuff floating around out there so that there's a 100% chance that some of it it going to collide from time to time.

"My understanding of what this dark matter might really be is that it may simply be relatively "ordinary" matter..."

That may actually be pretty close to it. Current thinking is that much "dark matter" may just be... matter, in the form of objects ranging from asteroid-sized to plantoid-sized moving around in interstellar space. Really small, really far away, not radiating ("dark", that is)... You'd never know they were there.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Smith, hate to tell you this, but stuff isn't RANDOMLY floating around, it is DIRECTIONAL. Moving in specific ways! If it was random, it still will end up falling towards the biggest objects. So that still makes it directional.

It is hard 'seeing' things when they are invisible and nothing is more invisible than time. We can see the effects of time but can't see 'it' itself.

[kev]

Try this thought experiment.

Place some massive objects with no initial momnetum on the perimeter of a large imaginary circle. Their mutual gravitational pull would draw them closer together make a smaller ring that eventually collapses to a point. This would give the appearance of the massive objects being drawn towards a central attractor where there is no mass. The objects are simply moving towards the centre of mass of the system as a whole and there does not have to be any mass at that centre.