What is all this about dark matter anyway? Here's a theory for you. What if it's not actually matter there? I mean, we can't see it. We can't detect it.

What if the universe is a bubble, one of an untold and uncountable myriad of concentric bubbles inside bubbles. The matter we see -- stars, galaxies, nebulae, everything -- is floating in the "skin" of our bubble. The bubble inside ours also has its matter floating in its skin. New universes, propelled by big bangs, are at the very center of the whole shebang. When they explode into existence, their expansion is a kind of pressure on the bubble-universe around it, causing it to expand, which causes the one outside of it to expand, and so on. The matter of one universe effects the matter in the universes directly adjacent to it -- black holes and neutron stars and other massive amounts of matter most especially. Their gravity effects the matter of the other universes to either side, but it works invisibly -- its effecting things, causing gravity effects without a detectable cause. This is what we've been calling "dark matter" and/or "dark energy". It also explains the expansion of the universe and the big bang. It would also explain where particles go when they seem to pop in and out of existence -- they're going to one of the other universes. Black holes don't neccessarily have to empy into anything. After all, what survives to empty out of them? They are, however, extremes of gravity that may cause extreme localized effects in one of the other adjacent universes. If they happen to hit the other universe where there's a nebula, they could create a star to coalesce the nebula. They could effect the course of galaxies or superclusters of galaxies. They could be spitting out just streams of particles that would normally be undetectable, or they might not be spitting out anything at all on the other end -- a sort of multiverse constipation.

I don't know how one would test such a hypothesis, but there it is.


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