Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Dark Matter

So basically, I have this theory about dark matter. I was going to place this blog in a certain category, but none of the categories made sense with this particular topic.

For anybody acquainted with the theory of anti-matter, this theory of mine should make sense. For those who aren't familiar with anti-matter, here is a brief and basic overview.

For everything, there is a paradox. For light there is dark. For sound, there is silence. It makes sense that for matter, there should also be an opposite; anti-matter. Basically, this anti-matter is a mirror image of the matter that we know and love, but charged in exactly the opposite way. Electrons are positively charged (making them positrons), protons are negatively charged (making them negatrons), and neutrons are, instead of being a proton with an embedded electron, negatrons with an embedded positron.

Now I bet you are wondering what possible connection this has to dark matter. Well, with that basic understanding of anti-matter, dark matter is perfectly explanable.
Our sun emits energy in several forms, the most familiar to us being heat and light. What is happening in our sun is that Hydrogen atoms are fusing together to make Helium atoms, which produces massive amounts of heat and light energy. The light energy is the emitted is the visible spectrum.

Now, imagine for a moment, a sun exactly like ours but composed entirely of anti-matter. The same processes are taking place, but with anti-matter. This would also produce a spectrum of light. However, because the particles in this anti-matter sun have exactly the opposite characteristics of the matter we know. In this case, the spectrum that the anti-matter sun emits would be exactly the opposite of the light we know. Therefore, the light that we would be using to see the so called 'dark matter' would be cancelled out, due to the nature of the light that it is emitting.

This is probably not what modern science would consider a valid theory. But I think it's a fairly good explanation.

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