07/08/2008: "The dual universe theory"

Well, now I've discarded the theory of my last blog in favor of another one.

Gravitons have long been postulated as a particle which "somehow" causes gravity. I suggest that gravitons are the remnants of a negative universe which has experienced a Big Rip. Everything about them is negative from our universe: they have negative space/time and negative mass/energy.

At the time of our universe's (the positive universe's) big bang, there were an enormous amount, yet finite number, of gravitons. There was plenty of "room" for them, because their spacial dimensions are all negative. Of course, "room" is not quite the right word. Because their dimensions are negative, they can't really be said to be "in" our universe.

Gravitons cause gravity because their space is contracting instead of expanding. On the local level this causes the space in our universe between two masses to contract in opposition to the general tendency of our universe's space to expand. As gravity causes the space between objects to become less and less, there is "room" for more and more gravitons because their dimensions are negative. This accounts for the increased power of gravity as objects move closer and closer to each other. It also explains why there is time dilation in a gravitational field as the negative time of gravitons affects our time.

Since fewer and fewer gravitons will "fit" in expanding space, they are constantly being destroyed. Finally our universe will reach a point where only one graviton is left. At this point our universe will progressively split until it becomes the maximum possible number of universes. This is the Big Rip. These multiple universes will "fuel" the Big Bang in the negative universe by becoming the gravitons in that universe.

Thus there are really two universes: a positive one and a negative one.