Apart from the moment of Creation, there are many other mysteries surrounding how the Universe has evolved, but two of them stand out; dark energy and dark matter. It is thought that dark energy causes the Universe to expand with ever increasing speed, while dark matter densities keep the galaxies “intact” through their gravitational effects. Many scientists have had numerous theories but with no convincing resolution to define either dark energy or dark matter.
In the book, Doug presents a unique hypothesis for the nature of dark energy. He assumes that first a so called parallel Universe was created with dark matter in it. Then our Universe was born inside the parallel Universe with the latter exerting a gravitational pull on ours. As the parallel Universe kept growing disproportionally larger than our Universe in it, such gravitational pull also disproportionally increased explaining why our Universe keeps expanding in an accelerated fashion. Another part of Doug’s hypothesis is that dark matter in the parallel Universe already began forming conglomerates at the time when our Universe was born. Thus, when intermixing of the two Universes occurred such dark matter conglomerates could draw newly formed matter thus acting as seeds of galaxies. Doug thinks that only such a mechanism can explain the recent observations that galaxies formed much earlier during the course our Universe’s evolution than predicted by the Big Bang model.