Introduction

I’ve written about the symmetry of gravity in the past, but at the time, I had a much more convoluted theory of physics. I now no longer believe in Quantum Mechanics (at all), and no longer believe in time as anything other than a measurement of change, but you can still of course have time dilation even with this limited definition. See, A Computational Model of Physics, where I rewrote all of Relativity and most of known physics using objective time. Now that I’ve gotten this garbage out of my brain, I have a very simple theory of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Dark Matter is predicted to exist because cosmological observations deviate from Relativity. Now, real mathematicians and scientists have garbage cans, and when observation deviates from predictions produced by a model, we throw the model in the garbage. So the best explanation for Dark Matter, is that it doesn’t exist, and Relativity is wrong. We already know that Relativity is wrong for other reasons, e.g., the existence of the Neutrino, which has mass, yet a velocity of c, which is completely impossible in Relativity. But rather than accept this, ostensible scientists fuss about whether it’s exactly c, or some other handwaving nonsense, in defense of a physically implausible theory of the Universe, where everything depends upon anthropomorphic observers, as if electrons had a brain. So I think the best answer for Dark Matter, is that Relativity is wrong, and we need a new model of physics to explain cosmological observations.

In contrast, I don’t think Dark Energy depends upon Relativity. If however, it does depend upon Relativity, then we should start with the assumption that Dark Energy doesn’t exist, and build a new model of physics that is consistent with cosmological observations, otherwise known as doing science. All of that said, it dawned on me last night, that there might be something to Dark Energy, specifically, if we complete the symmetry of gravity.

Let’s start by completing the symmetry of gravity, which requires positive and negative mass, which we will denote as and , respectively. Let’s further assume that we are surrounded almost exclusively by positive mass, which again is denoted by . Let’s assume that positive mass is attracted to positive mass, which would obviously be perfectly consistent with gravity, since we’ve already assumed that almost all matter we are exposed to is positive mass. Further, let’s assume that negative mass is similarly attracted to negative mass, and that masses with opposite signs cause repulsion. That is, given some quantity of positive mass and negative mass , the two masses will repel each other when sufficiently proximate. This completes the symmetry of gravity, since we now have positive and negative masses, and attractive and repulsive forces.

The obvious question is, where’s all this negative mass, and repulsive force? Well, first let’s consider that the Universe is quite old, and as a result, if we posit such a force has always existed, then this would eventually divide the Universe into at least two regions, one filled with mostly positive mass, and one filled with mostly negative mass. If this process is less than complete, then we should see some inexplicable acceleration due to interactions between positive and negative masses, which is consistent with Dark Energy.

Now, the SLAC 144 Experiment demonstrates that light on light collisions can produce matter-antimatter pairs. Further, we know that matter-antimatter collisions can create light. Let’s assume again that we’re in a positive matter region of the Universe, and as such, if we allow to represent a photon, we could write that , to represent a positron and electron colliding to form a photon. Similarly, we could write that to represent a light on light collision producing an electron-positron pair.

With that notation, now let’s posit the negative-mass versions of the electron and positron, which we will denote as and . The question is, what do we get when we combine the negative-mass versions of an electron and positron? Expressed symbolically, , where is some unknown particle.

If it’s an ordinary photon, then we arguably have a problem, because photon collisions have been shown to produce positive-mass electron positron pairs. That is, under this hypothetical, in the negative-mass regions of the Universe, when you do light on light collisions, you still get positive-mass pairs, which should eventually be kicked out of that region of space. In contrast, in the positive-mass regions of the Universe, when you do light on light collisions, you also get positive-mass pairs, but they stick around because it’s ordinary mass.

We could hypothesize that this is just the way things are, but we get an elegant potential solution to the source of Dark Energy if we instead posit the existence of negative-mass light , as a particle distinct from ordinary light. Specifically, if we further posit that negative-mass light does not interact with positive mass, and that positive-mass light (our ordinary photons) do not interact with negative mass, then that negative mass would not be detectable using ordinary photons. Ironically, this is a kind of “dark” matter, but it’s not the nonsense hypothesized hitherto.