Could we be living in a viscous type environment and just not know it?

[flobadob]

Before anyone asks, no I am not drinking or smoking anything tonight(yet)! but this is something that I've been wondering about for a long time and it all stems from the idea of matter, anti matter, dark matter, dark energy or whatever you want to call it. Apparently this stuff is invisible yet it makes up a vast proportion of the universe.

So what I'm basically wondering is there any chance that we are actually living in this viscous type of environment or maybe we are surrounded constantly by some other material (neutrinos anyone?) that we just don't see or can't see. My thinking is that it has been there from day one but we have evolved within it and we accept it and now we don't notice it.

Are there any takers to my theory?

[jake-the-peg]

There were 150 years ago - they called it the Ether and it was roundly disproved by the Michaelson-Morely Experiment.

But we do all have billions of neutrinos a second passing through out bodies.

Their not viscous though because they don't interact with us enough.

In a sense the Higgs field is supposed to be a bit like this, permuating the Universe, interacting with matter giving it mass.

I'll tell you if you're right next year - we should know by then

[douglas9401]

Yeeeeeesssssssss, but at a more basic level, if it was true we'd be paying viscosity tax.

[craft1948]

I'll own up to not drinking................

[Anlyn]

viscosity tax! Too true.

[annadomino]

Blast, does this mean I am about to be eviscerated?

[jake-the-peg]

Oh dear I just noticed I said "their" rather than "they're"!

Strange - where are the hoards of pedants calling me an uneducated yob?

Perhaps they don't venture into Science

[boxtops]

we're surrounded by what we call Air, which is in fact a substance rather than a nothing - we're just used to it.

[heathfield]

Too early in the morning, Jake. ;-)

[flobadob]

This could have gone a bit matrixy.

[scowie]

Dark matter probably doesn't exist. It is the theoretical result of calculations based on a wrong premise, i.e. that gravity alone governs the motion of galaxies. If you take account of electromagnetic forces too (the forces that result from electric charge separation in plasma), then there's no need to invent some exotic form of matter.
(see www.plasmacosmology.net)

Dark energy probably doesn't exist either. This is another theoretical non-entity that supposedly fuels the expansion of the universe. The universe probably isn't expanding at all though. The idea that it does comes from the assumption that galactic redshifts are a doppler effect when it is quite possible that they are instead a scattering effect. Light may simply be losing energy to matter in the intergalactic medium. (watch this: http://bit.ly/sv3MGo)

The cosmic microwave background is probably the blackbody radiation emitted by matter in interstellar space. Basically space is full of matter but scientists didnt realise this when the archaic big bang theory was dreamt up. They treated it like a complete vacuum, and since then scientists have invested so much time and energy into the big bang thoery they cant bare to drop it now, so they desperately tweak their tired old theories which involves dreaming up new forms of matter and energy and making the universe out to be more complicated than it really is.

Here's a page that sums up the many flaws of the big bang theory:
http://www.metaresear...smology/BB-top-30.asp

Imo, the universe is eternal and static and really quite simple.

[flobadob]

scowie, I will check those out. Interesting.