Scientists at Oxford University may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics: their new work combines dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a liquid with "negative mass." If you try to push away negative mass, it will accelerate in your direction. And this amazing new theory may also prove the correct prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.
The currently widely accepted model of the universe - the lambda-CDM - tells us nothing about what dark matter and dark energy are physically. We only know about them because of the gravitational effects they have on other observable matter.
Negative mass fluid
The new model, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics by Jamie Farnes of the Oxford Center for Electronic Research, offers a new explanation. Farnes says: “We now think that dark matter and dark energy can be combined into a fluid that has 'negative gravity' that repels any other material around it. Although this matter in itself would be extremely curious, it could confirm that our cosmos is symmetrical in positive and negative qualities."
The existence of negative matter was previously ruled out, because it was believed that this material would become less dense as the universe expanded, which contradicts our observations that dark matter does not deplete over time. However, Dr. Farnes's research employs a "tensor of creation" to continuously create negative masses. He demonstrates that as more and more negative masses appear, this negative mass liquid does not dilute as space expands. In fact, this liquid is identical to dark energy.
Farnes's theory also provides the first correct predictions for the behavior of dark matter halos. Most galaxies rotate so fast that they should be torn apart, but they are held in place by a "halo" of dark matter.