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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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Knowledge <strong>of</strong> the force <strong>of</strong> gravity was indeed very important to science and it was at the heart <strong>of</strong> many ideas<br />

that evolved throughout the 1900s. Through prior auto-acceptance <strong>of</strong> the major role that gravity played, other<br />

ideas associated with it were also easily accepted as scientific fact. We will look at some <strong>of</strong> these other theories<br />

that involved gravity and which evolved as part <strong>of</strong> the SM during the 1900s.<br />

Here we have Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation, White Dwarfs, Pulsars,<br />

Neutron Stars, Magnetars, Black Holes and Nova events. There are more,<br />

but these will do for now. First I will tell you that we do not know what<br />

any <strong>of</strong> these things are supposed to look like, so the following graphics in<br />

no way represent actual physical objects or events. They are included only<br />

to help in imagining the concepts being described.<br />

Before talking about Dark Matter and Dark Energy, I need to say something<br />

about the composition <strong>of</strong> our universe. This is the mixture <strong>of</strong> ‘stuff’ and<br />

‘forces’ that astro-science says can explain its appearance and behaviour.<br />

The amount <strong>of</strong> ‘physical matter’ in the total universe that can actually be<br />

seen or otherwise detected or estimated by us, has been calculated to be<br />

only 4% <strong>of</strong> the total amount <strong>of</strong> matter that is actually present [1-2a] . This<br />

© author<br />

estimate is based only on objects and events that have resulted from gas<br />

and dust and the effects <strong>of</strong> gravity acting on those forms <strong>of</strong> matter. What then makes up the other 96% that<br />

mathematics tells today’s astro-scientists is there? This is where their calculations have produced a division <strong>of</strong><br />

this figure to say that dark matter is around 24% and dark energy is around 72%.<br />

12 | What the problem is<br />

HOLDING THINGS<br />

TOGETHER<br />

The stuff we can<br />

see and detect<br />

Dark Matter is a name chosen by the Bulgarian astronomer Fritz<br />

Zwicky. He came up with it to describe a special type <strong>of</strong> matter<br />

he thought was needed to explain the binding force that seems to<br />

exist within and between galaxies. For Zwicky, this would be the<br />

force that keeps structures such as galaxies together and the one<br />

that in an overall sense stops everything from flying apart; this<br />

‘flying apart’ aspect being the problem Zwicky wanted to solve<br />

in 1933 because it was a problem for the SM at the time.<br />

Zwicky calculated that if dark matter was placed at strategic<br />

locations within and around galaxies, the gravity it produced<br />

would save the original ideas on galaxy creation and behaviour.<br />

4%<br />

24%<br />

Dark Matter<br />

Galaxies and the Stars inside being held together © author<br />

72%<br />

Dark Energy

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