Upheaval in the world of science as last week emerged that most recent research indicates that our universe does not contain dark matter.
Expansion of the universe is not caused by dark matter or energy but simply by fading powers that keeps everything together.
This explosive revelation caused renewed earthquakes as it is compromising the current models what the universe is all about.
Dark matter seems to be fantasy.
Theoretical models for the composition of the universe are until today based on the assumption that everything surrounding us is made of normal matter, dark energy and dark matter.
Scientists at the University of Ottawa are not so sure anymore as recent research is challenging the widely spread stance on the subject.
An article about this conclusion was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal. It explains that the current model of the universe has no room for dark matter.
The force of dark matter is something we can’t see, nor do we know what it’s made of, but it helps us understand how galaxies, planets and stars behave. It was the ‘fix’ for a model about the behavior of the entire cosmic space surrounding us.
Physics professor at the Ottawa Faculty of Science, Rajendra Gupta used a combination of the covarying coupling constants (CCC) and “tired light” (TL) theories (the CCC+TL model) to reach this conclusion.
This model combines two ideas—about how the forces of nature decrease over cosmic time and about light losing energy when it travels a long distance. It has been tested and shown to match up with several observations, such as about how galaxies are spread out and how light from the early universe has evolved.
This discovery challenges the prevailing understanding of the universe, which suggests that roughly 27% of it is composed of dark matter and less than 5% of ordinary matter. The rest is dark energy.
“The study’s findings confirm that the universe does not require dark matter to exist” according professor Gupta.
Not dark energy but the weakening forces of nature are responsible for the ongoing expansion of the universe.
Professor Gupta:”There are several papers that question the existence of dark matter, but mine is the first one, to my knowledge, that eliminates its cosmological existence while being consistent with key cosmological observations that we have had time to confirm”
By challenging the need for dark matter in the universe and providing evidence for a new cosmological model, this study opens new routes for exploring the fundamental properties of the universe.