I'm in the process of reading a very nice book called In Search of Dark Matter by Ken Freeman and Geoff McNamara.
They make the point, as does the NASA website, that 70% of the universe is dark energy and 25 % is dark matter. Less than 5% is everything else (including all the planets and stars).
The authors of the book also point out that the movement of the stars and galaxies shows a mysterious gravitational influence, as if there were mysterious currents of gravity that subtly affect the movement of the heavens.
Einstein himself had something to say on the subject, as quoted in this brief quote from the NASA Astrophysics web page
"One explanation for dark energy is that it is a property of space. Albert Einstein was the first person to realize that empty space is not nothing. Space has amazing properties, many of which are just beginning to be understood. The first property that Einstein discovered is that it is possible for more space to come into existence. Then one version of Einstein's gravity theory, the version that contains a cosmological constant, makes a second prediction: "empty space" can possess its own energy. Because this energy is a property of space itself, it would not be diluted as space expands. As more space comes into existence, more of this energy-of-space would appear. As a result, this form of energy would cause the Universe to expand faster and faster. Unfortunately, no one understands why the cosmological constant should even be there, much less why it would have exactly the right value to cause the observed acceleration of the Universe. "
Every time I read the work of any thoughtful theoretical physicist or astrophysicist I am astonished by how it is obvious to me--it just leaps right off the page--that we live in the mother field, the pre-time time wind, which is the creative and sustaining ground of our universe's sustenance and the source of its astrogenesis. Faraday and Maxwell called it the ether. Their only mistake was that they thought it was of the material realm. It is, in fact, of the timeless realm.
In describing the Newtonian physicists' idea concept of the ethe
r, Theoretical Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, in his book Einstein's Cosmos, said that "the aether was supposed to be the absolute reference frame upon which one could measure all velocities. . . . With time, the aether became almost a mystical substance: it was absolutely stationary, weightless, invisible, with zero viscosity, yet stronger than steel and undetectable by any instrument."Actually, they were very close. The ether is relatively motionless, it is a reasonably good invariant reference frame for physical reality, because it is pre-time and still as far as the ever moving creation, composed of myriad relative motions is concerned. The luminiferous ether is also not the ultimate reference, being subordinate to the Prime Mover.
It is not a material substance, however. It is timeless and like whirlwind of force from which comes matter to be, then primitive matter, time, and space. It is the inertial reference frame for time, and that is why the speed of light is a speed limit and invariant in all reference frames. Light is measured against the true timeless "stillness" of the pre-time force.
The universe began not with a bang but with a mighty whoosh, as the pre-time force began to circulate around the creation center. It gained speed until it was many times the speed of light, and at a certain critical point, primitive mass particles or energy particles began to swirl like little eddies or whirlpools, each being both a wave and like the water's inflow or sink in a swimming becomes like a something casting a show below itself.
The swirling primitive matter acquires gyroscopic and centrifugal force, and from it will come magnetism and electrostatic force. as the time wind envelopes the mass, you have gravity, the bending of the time space field.
I don't have the time in this blog to continue describing the unfolding of things, but I just need to say that when matter and energy come into existence, you then have time and space. The matter lags behind in the river of the ether, creating waves, and as the ether wind moves on you have distance. The ether field, or the pre-time wind, is of the timeless dimension, just on the other side of matter, just before the event horizon of the creation moments. From timelessness came time, energy, gravity, and measurement. "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight," (Wisdom 11:20).
Creation continues at this very moment. We feel the time wind (which is timeless and pre-time) moving past us. The moving time wind is what we feel as the passage of time. And we sense the presence of the mother field as gravity, pressing you into your seat as you read this sentence.
You cannot measure the timeless source of time and gravity. But you can sense the movement of time, in comparison with the still timeless present.
I need not conjecture, because what is clear to me rises to the level of postulates.
God expressed Himself and created the universe out of nothing (ex nihilo). ^1
Creation proceeded from a pre-time moving stillness, moving near the center of creation, that had not yet acquired the speed for matter to begin coalescing and then clumping.
Matter is still being created (contradicting the law of conservation of matter)
Gravity is a property of the field, not the object.
Gravity pushes (and envelopes). It is not a property of matter.
Conjectures:
Magnetism and gravity are the same thing. Magnetism is localized gravity. Magnetism is a more intimate relationship between the field, matter, and the influence of matter on other matter. Voltage (electrostatic field) is evidence of the creative force of the ether, and is akin to magnetism.
Dark energy is evidence of the pre-time ether which fills the entire universe, perhaps of its creative force in the material realm, expressed in terms of electric plasma or pre plasma.
Dark matter is matter to be - the process of creation where primitive matter is being formed at the edge of pre-time wind.
To me it is all clear and it only remains for physicists to see what they themselves have written! Space is not a void. Maxwell and Faraday were right. And so was the good Dr. Einstein when he intuitively added his cosmological constant.
Einstein was unbudgeable (good natured inflexibility as Emerson calls it). And his ideas were not immediately accepted and many were not even proven until decades later.
Did I think up or make up any of the postulates and conjectures I am sure about. For me it was easy, I am not afraid to stand on the shoulders of giants.
Someone else said it and now I just see it. And so I just say what I see. Time and time again, I read what is as plain as the nose on your face in the writings of physicists, and yet they miss it. Perhaps they are just afraid to grasp with firm conviction what they sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson put it this way:
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,--that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,--and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole Cry of voices is on the other side.
Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. " From Self Reliance
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”
O heavenly Father, You have filled the world with beauty
and provided for us in abundance.
Open our eyes to behold Your gracious hand in all Your works;
that, rejoicing in Your whole creation, we may learn to serve
You with gladness. The Book of Common Prayer
1. He created pre-time moving stillness circumorbiting the creation event still center. God willed the pre-time wind to gain force and moving faster and faster, the omnidirectional moving stillness grew until at the periphery (circumference), a critical point was reached where swirling whirlwinds of pre-time force gained wave density (like the inward spin of water going into a drain or the angular spin of air in the vertical column vortex of a twister).
