The Gravity of the Matter

What to Make of it All

What do you think dark matter consists of?
Evidence is increasing to suggest that 'dark matter' clumps gave birth to all our bright or visible galaxies.

Today, the mystery of the composition of this stuff still lingers, and thus far, it eludes every human mind on our planet.

Maybe we should assist the astrophysicits and see if we can glean an insight from their observations.

Instinctively, one senses that the mystery will have such a simple solution.

The first consideration should be about where all this dark matter might have come from in the first place.

It is unacceptable to simply bolt on the notion that the Big Bang must have produced it.
All the bolts protruding from the Big Bang model are turning the theory into a monster.

An intuitive answer may well lie in astronomers recent observations that very old and distant galaxies contain less luminous matter than galaxies that are closer to our own.

Faint, irregular galaxies, seem to suggest that the first bright stuff to emit light, emerged from the cores of these early dark matter globules or clumps.

It is as if the dark stuff gave birth to the bright stuff.
That leads to a problem, because most physicists now believe that dark matter cannot consist of the 'baryonic' matter that our visible Universe consists of.
Baryonic matter simply means protons and neutrons, that make up all ordinary matter.
We, for example are made from baryonic matter, and so are our homes and autombiles.
All the objects we observe in the Cosmos are made from baryons.

The reason that cosmologists and astrophysicits think dark matter is non-baryonic, is because it would interact with bright or ordinary matter if it were baryonic, and dark matter appears to be inert to bright matter.

The way around this is to consider that dark matter may be baryonic, but is somehow prevented from undergoing nuclear and electromagnetic interactions.

What in the Universe could serve to render dark matter invisible and immune to the effects of ordinary matter?

Gravity could hold the key.
Gravity might cause all the objects that shine and glow in the heavens, to eventually stop emitting light or any form of electromagnetic radiation.

The Laws of Thermodynamics do not apply in the absence of heat.
So if gravity were to exhaust all the hydrogen to helium fusion, thereby using up all the hydrogen needed to form stars, stars would no longer form.
The ones that have formed will eventually burn out their fusion fuels, go supernova, and leave small massive dense cores that slowly cool down until even the Second Law of Thermodynamics abandons them, when they reach a point of almost maximun entropy.

Just because the Second Law no longer applies at this point does not mean that the cold dense core remnants of all the stars that ever existed will simply cease to exist.

Indeed, they will exist in darkness, devoid of any heat transmissions.

There is no reason to believe that just because of the absense of electromagnetic radiation, the Universe will contract again under the force of gravity, because dark energy will still be around to counter gravity from collecting all the cold ash and debris scattered across the sky and crushing it into one great mass..

Rather, gravity will continue to easily overpower dark energy's anti-gravitational effects at close range, meaning that gravity will continue to hold comic remnants like old neutron stars together, in spite of the continuing accelerated expansion of the now dark Universe.

It is this dark Universe that will give rise clumps of dark matter (which is also not going anywhere anytime soon) in which gravity can reheat some matter in the clump cores until there eventually appears new light in them.

The force of gravity could turn out to be the Universe's ultimate negative entropy or 'renewable energy' provider, but it would need 'something to squeeze' and that something would have to be everything that was in the Universe when the lights went out.
If that 'something' (matter) happened to be free neutrons and alpha particles, before long, gravity will be happily making new stars.
Only then will the Second Law of thermodynamics apply again, as it manages this new energy in the way that it manages all enegy.

From an observer's point of view, it will appear as the birth of the Universe.