Mike Williams wrote:
> My crackpot theory is that dark matter is just normal matter that's
> outside the brane in which our universe resides. Brane theory suggests
> that gravity is weak because gravitons can travel in all directions,
> whereas other force carriers can't travel outside the brane. Objects in
> our universe feel the gravity from massive objects in nearby branes, but
> don't feel any other forces from them since the other force carriers are
> trapped in their branes. The dark matter appears fuzzy because the
> separation between the branes is the equivalent of several thousand
> light years.
Doesn't seem like this would have worked, anyway. First, such a
distance would be hard to explain the profound effects we see,
considering that our estimates are that dark matter is something like
90% of the matter in our Universe. Second, it wouldn't explain the halo
distribution of dark matter we've introduced to explain galactic
rotation curves.
You'd have to explain why the effect is as strong as it is, as well as
why it has a distribution that correlates with strongly with haloes
around galaxies. I'm not really seeing how a nearby brane could do that.
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