I finished Martin Rees’s book Just Six Numbers, while I didn’t really understand it that well, not being a physicist or a star gazer, I did get the thematic. Most folks do this, a book written by a professional and digested by non-professionals needs to be very well written and Rees does this well enough. So what did I not get, and why this blog post? Well, I think I might have spotted something…..

Rees highlights that there are six forces within the universe, nuclear forces, gravity, density, dimension, rest mass energy and nuclear efficiency (if I remember them correctly). If I’ve got them wrong then no matter, what I am talking about is not a fault or an error on Rees’s part but an omission of sorts. Highlighted is the theory of dark matter/energy, and here is where I have a problem. Current thinking is that the known universe does not add up to 1. This is important, all things must be whole, there is specifically 0.7 of the whole missing. How this is proved is in the maths, the universe is expanding from a single point and its energy should be dissipating, but it is not. According to red shift light, it is actually expanding faster than it should be and accelerating that expansion. Current physics can’t explain this other than to speculate a force that we cannot detect. I think Rees, and other scientists miss something that might explain the oddness that is occurring, what is the universe expanding into?

If you imagine a bubble expanding on the surface of your bath, what is contained within the bubble is a gas, that gas is pressuring the bubble to get bigger. Everything that is outside the bubble is pressuring the other way. The bubble is expanding within the universe. What if our theory of universal expansion is not taking into account the forces that are outside what we think of as the edge of space. Let’s say that there is a pull effect that grows larger as the edge grows bigger, would that not explain the missing maths?

I’m willing to be wrong, I started this piece by stating my non-credentials and my non full comprehension of the subject, but am I on to something?

You decide..

Paul Simon Wilson