Expert: Jesse Martinez - 5/9/2010

Question
Could the gravitational forces from dark matter which we find in space be the gravitational forces from parallel universes?

Answer
Wow!!! The questioner has the expert thinking! Kudos. This is how ideas are born, examined, studied, debated and resolved. Give me time to ponder this. I will get back to you in a day or two.

Revision. I have been thinking, maybe too much. Here is what I have come up with. Unfortunately, it does not directly answer your question, but is sure to raise many more.

First. There is some reason to believe that gravity might be leaking from parallel universes. There are references to this in scientific journals and web references. My own personal thoughts are as follows:

My theory is that there are an infinite number of parallel universes. The reason this is so, is that there is an infinite amount of mass at an infinite density in an infinite amount of space, without the existence of time, in other words, the exact opposite of a perfect vacuum. This is what I believe the passive state of the universe is. This might also be the the description of the universe before the Big Bang. In my theory, the big Bang would have been caused by the commencement of time in the forward direction, the active state of the universe in our perception. In each reality after the Big Bang as defined by observers, there is only a certain amount of matter visible at any one time. The reason being time itself. If all time could be observed at once, in effect the absence of time, the idea of an infinitely dense infinitely large universe could be perceived. That is beyond human comprehension however, since we observe matter only in a paced linear progression of time. My explanation is that since an infinite amount of scenarios are possible, ones in which dark matter cause excess gravity, or dark matter's gravitational presence is a byproduct of matter from a parallel universe, or even other scenarios are indeed possible. The exact mechanism or process by which this could happen I do not currently have an explanation for. In short, your idea is as good as any.