Mass

Okay, this is more crazy speculation. As you know, 13.7 billion years ago or so, a tiny pinpoint no larger than an atom exploded into the universe. This Big Bang event created intense concentrated energy that eventually began to cool and form matter in the form of hydrogen gas, which in turn, ended up forming the first giant stars.

The question is: how did this hydrogen get clumped together so that gravity could compress it into a star?

One answer is that irregularities formed in a millionth of a millionth of second after the Big Bang, and these clumps allowed the hydrogen to begin to collapse. However, there wasn't enough matter to make the hydrogen condense fast enough. Something else added the gravity to help this process. One argument is that dark matter, which supposedly formed right after the Big Bang, played a part in this process.
However, it could be that this clumping effect in the original hydrogen clouds that formed after the Big Bang was the result of lumpy gravity. This gravity clumping is seen in the background microwave map of the early universe. This lumpy gravity effect is still around and could be what's causing gravity lensing and other so called dark energy effects.

So, what would make gravity clump? If one proposes that gravity could be both a particle and a wave, this clumping effect could be the effect that we call dark matter. Some cosmologists say that dark matter annihilation is one reason that supermassive black holes formed early after the Big Bang. Supermassive black holes are needed to form galaxies, and since these galaxies formed within a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, something was needed to form supermassive black holes that fast. This could be either dark matter or clumpy gravity.

This clumpy gravity idea assumes that gravity is not a constant like Einstein's theories predicted. Gravity would have to be variable, depending on the influence of other matter. The more massive the matter, the more the interaction with gravity, which would explain how supermassive black holes formed. The gravity in a black hole is really strong, which would provide the impetus to cause gravity to become even stronger. This could also explain why the universe formed galaxy clusters and filaments. Cosmologists say that the filaments are the result of dark matter, but if gravity becomes stronger with more matter, this could be the cause.

The particle associated with dark matter had yet to be discovered. If it can't be discovered, then the only discourse is to come up with a new theory. The same could be said for so called dark energy, the invisible force that's responsible for the expansion of the universe. Maybe as matter becomes more diluted, gravity becomes negative. It's just a thought.

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