“The greatest obstacle to progress in science is the illusion of knowledge - the illusion that we know already what’s going on - when we don’t! ”
Professor Michael Disney of Cardiff UniversityLast year I declared to a friend: ‘I am probably the only person on this planet who has a true picture of our universe’. The more I told him I had discovered new physics or a new law of nature, the more he referred to the discovery as - ‘my theory’. Here was total disbelief that new laws of physics and nature could be found in the 21st century. In other words, we humans must have discovered everything that is easily available to us.
We clearly have not.
In my opinion, the greatest discoveries in science must include those that have saved some sort of life, and it does not have to be human life. There have been hundreds of these discoveries which necessarily mean that the human race is far from stupid. However, there seem to be occasions when the opposite is true. During this research I found so many blunders and mistakes in astrophysics that there had to be some common factors at work.
I have heard the cosmic microwave background radiation declared as: the greatest scientific discovery of all time. Only a cosmologist could think that. I have also heard the theory of the expanding universe described as: the greatest scientific discovery of all time. Cosmology seems to be full of the greatest discoveries. The fact is, we do not know that there was a Big Bang and that the universe is expanding. Both rely on a whole host of dodgy assumptions which will be proved wrong in these pages. On the subject of ‘dark matter’ and for the future, Professor Tim Sumner of Imperial College, London said: “The discovery of dark matter must surely rate amongst the other great discoveries of physics”.
I have found what dark matter is, but I do not think it will be recognised as a great discovery. It may well go down as one of the most notorious ‘discoveries’ because I can prove that it does not exist. How do you refute something which we cannot see? I went to the moment of mathematical creation and found one of the biggest blunders of all time in astrophysics. This has opened up a Pandora’s Box.
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The absence of dark matter was the first of my discoveries and by the
time I had finished with the rest, I was unfortunately becoming a student
of human nature. Yet though I had discovered the key to the whole picture
of the universe, not a single person wanted to congratulate me. Strange
isn’t it?
I showed two people a draft of my work and discoveries. Both suggested
having the work checked by acquaintances who are theoretical physicists.
Now it was my turn to go into a state of disbelief. Here I was stating
facts and everybody wanted to rush to theorists who propound mostly abstract
thought with very little evidence. I reflected for a moment - Has everybody
gone barmy? Doesn’t anyone want the truth? Why would I want my work checked
by the very people who have perpetrated the biggest blunders in astrophysical
and cosmological history? Why would I need 100 x 1 x 1 / 4 = 25 checked
by an expert mathematician when a ten year old could quite easily accomplish
this? Alas, I have known for quite a while that pure mathematicians and
theoretical physicists do not make good detectives.
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Next, I gave an early version of my discoveries to my elder brother, who is interested in cosmology. His advice was that I would need to ‘nail’ Einstein. I instantly understood just how difficult it is sometimes to see the obvious. It is quite impossible to do any theoretical physics, give any theory or do any meaningful calculations on gravity, mass, potential and kinetic energy, escape velocity, ‘slingshot’ of matter and so on, if you do not know the factual laws of physics. This situation prevails at present.
There’s another problem here. Most theoretical cosmologists want and need only their thoughts and imaginations to be right. That would be fatal in the police force, the C.I.D. or the NTSB. Intuition is useful and sometimes priceless, but it can also be ruinous without observation or evidence. It was now obvious that there would be severe reluctance to accept my discoveries although they were based on known physics and therefore fact. Huge amounts of money and prestige were now at stake, which may bring out the worst of human nature.