A scientist from University of Ottawa has controversially claimed that dark matter does not exist in our universe and is simply an illusion.
Professor Rajendra Gupta has proposed a controversial solution to one of the most puzzling questions for scientists in modern history - the mystery of dark matter and dark energy.
He argued that astronomers have been unsuccessful in finding dark matter because it does not exist, adding, “The effects attributed to these exotic matters can be explained by the fundamental forces of the universe changing over time.”
For context, in the 1970s astronomer Vera Rubin observed the hypothetical dark matter that causes outermost stars of the galaxy to rotate much faster indicating that galaxies contained more mass than their visible matter could account for.
Dark energy, also believed to be a hidden force, was used to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang.
The controversial opinion of Professor Gupta challenges the current belief that dark matter accounts for 27 per cent of the universe and dark energy makes up about 68 per cent, leaving the normal matter to account for only five per cent.
In his new paper, Professor Gupta argues that if Einstein's equations of cosmic expansion are applied to covarying coupling constants, “we get purely mathematical terms called alpha-matter and alpha-energy.”
He added that alpha-matter and alpha-energy behave exactly like dark matter and dark energy.
