This is an edited version of my Sunday Smiles essay.
One of my many interests is physics, and I have long thought that the discipline of Physics is caught in a cul-de-sac and that a new paradigm is necessary to explain significant lacunae in our understanding of how seemingly contradictory data fit together.
The Dark Energy/Dark Matter problem is one of the largest issues. Our observations of the universe and understanding of how it should work suggest that the vast majority of the mass in the universe is not observable. We keep looking for some evidence of Dark Matter to explain why the universe isn’t behaving as it should, and never seem to find it.
The most obvious example of this is that the rotation of galaxies is inconsistent with the amount of mass we observe. If the observable mass of a galaxy were all there were, galaxies would rotate very differently than they do. A…
