So the US government just spent $80 billion dollars on this telescope. And this got me thinking. Currently we don't know where dark matter and energy are. The easy explanation for what that means is that the universe is expanding at a rate that's faster than it should, meaning that somehow the universe is being pulled from somewhere using gravity, but we can't see any star systems that would be doing the pulling.

This is one of the large unknown problems in physics. And one of the good things about this telescope is that it's beyond the gravitational lense of the sun, meaning it can measure light extremely accurately and tell people what exists outside the bounds of the solar system without having to correct for the suns gravitational effects. My idea here is that at the start of the big bang there was a large burst of light that raced away from the center of the explosion and is still traveling at the furthest edges of the universe. This would be obviously true, but there's another weird phenomenon that may not be being taken account of. That the light itself traps some incredibly small particle of matter. At a scale that's large enough this would matter and in the smallest sense it would not because it would be too small to measure.

If this is true you could test this with the telescope to see the relative speed of objects based on large amounts of distance. With this information you would then be able to determine if the missing pull of gravitation occurred closer to the edges of known space and to what amount this differed. This would be an incredibly important result that would have implications for space travel. More importantly this is falsifiable to the extent that if the telescope doesn't find that this is true you've disproven the result and can ignore the rest of this.

One of our foundational intuitions is that all particles that travel do so through a medium, with the sole exception of light. In this case we would say that light itself, if it has a role in affecting gravitation, does so by pulling out some amount of particle from the fabric of space (in some way), and weaves around it before going to the next area of space and pulling out some amount of particle. These trapped particles would be the missing amounts of gravitation and would alter the E=MC^2 equation (I believe - although *how* is difficult for me to answer as I don't know and would be guessing). This follows from our intuition about what being is at its' most fundamental because it is the area for which a does not imply b but a and b simply exist. These particles that light weaves around may be being pulled from some other unknown dimension, but this only adds to the complexity in a way that's difficult to describe. If light weaves around a particle that disappears back into the background radiation there may be some conservation of particles such that there is a finite amount of particles that come into and out of reality irrespective of where they appear in proximate space.

Now, if you aim enough lightbeams at a single location in space the light will fuse creating matter according to the E=MC^2 equation. It takes an enormous amount of energy however. On the other hand, if you have more observations about how light works in general then you can lower the amount of energy needed. My (admittedly far-fetched) idea is that you can use a tunnel whereby the light itself travels at the speed of light but you are able to move the particles within the light which they wrap around by having the light (but not the particles) intersect at a magnetic wall that fluctuates at the speed of the oscillation of the light waves. In this way you may be able to make it similar to the uncertainty principle that the particles around which the light moves (the finite amounts of matter) travel along the light itself much in the same way that electricity can be transmitted around a magnetic coil. Each particle of matter would travel faster than light (to a third party observer) only by respect of how fast it traded positions within the light wave which would be slower than light. If you could move particles of matter within a beam of light in this way you may be able to lower the energy requirements in order to create fused particles. All of this can be tested in a lab, and what I like about this is that each step in the chain of reasoning can be tested individually using either observation or experimentation.

All of this will make more sense when I draw out the pictures which I'll post at some later time.

So this is where the missing dark energy ought to be. You can see the wave front of light that is creating a bubble of mass at the furthest reaches of the (knowable) universe. A couple things here. One is that this doesn't look like it would have that much energy, but that's just a matter of the drawing - first in not being in three dimensions, but more importantly in that we don't know how much energy was released as light during the big bang and how this affects gravitation without direct observation outside of the gravitational lense of the sun (which makes these things harder to measure).

This one is more intuitional and comes in large part from my philosophy. From everything that we know of, excepting light for some reason, there is a medium through which the item traveling travels. In the vacuum of space there used to be this idea that there was an "aether" or gas that light would travel through some I'm not harkening back to that. Rather I am say that when light travels it does so by going at such a fast speed that it encounters minimal quantities of mass that pop into and out of existence from the basis of being as such (which we say is part of phenemona as we experience it subjectively). When it encounters a mass particle it orbits the particle, slowing down to the speed of C, before orbitting the next mass particle (the orbits are unstable).

So, I'm completely ignoring most of the science of quantum mechanics (admittedly) and talking about particles themselves (or in some cases using the ideas interchangeably). Remember that these are only rough sketches. What I'm saying in the slide above is that if light goes faster than light it's orbits around the mass particles that it intersects are enough to bend the light into a stable configuration. So it's not so much that light creates matter as that light has some centrifugal velocity that goes around a matter particle and any light that intersects enough such particles at the same time does so to make a stable matter configuration. Such configurations that absorb light itself so they cannot be seen would be singularities and require substantially more energy in order to do so.

So these next two slides are two ways to lower the energy requirements in order to create matter with a series of lasers. So there are two potential ways of creating matter for thrust. You can use lasers powerful enough to make particles which would provide thrust, or with significantly more energy potentially make singularities that would drag a ship. Once you've established the idea that light itself traps some amount of matter based on an orbit around a quasi-particle you can start studying the nature of these orbits and then see if you can create laser patterns that would make such orbits as energy efficient as possible in order to create matter and mass. Most likely this would look, from a complete layman's point of view, similar to rolling a snowball or bread dough. You would need lasers in a helix pattern in order to prevent trapped mass from escaping and having the resulting mass created by the laser array fall into itself. The other thing that may be possible (and this is admittedly a long shot) is to modify the lasers individually themselves by bombarding the lasers with magnetic waves that would intersect the light waves at the peaks and troughs of the waves and timed to the wavelength of the light. While nothing moves faster than light, you may be able to make the quasi matter within the light beam itself change position within the wave and thereby have it when several of these light beams intersect matter would be created at lower energy (as E=MC^2 is akin to a drag coefficient). There are many caveats to this and it is the end of a long change of if this then this may be possible reasoning. First, it may be more efficient just to increase the power of the light beam itself than bombard the light with magnetism. Second, this may slow down the light beam rather than add energy which would negate the point. Third, outside of the tunnel after the light is emitted the quasi-mass may immediately slow (at the speed of light?) back down to it's normal speed within the light reference frame so any added energy would be lost before light beams could intersect to form mass particles.

Overall, the dark energy and dark mass can be tested using the new telescope the US has and the laser array can be tested in a lab setting to see if a specific configuration can roll mass or can cause quasimass light reference frame travel. All of this is blue sky thinking on a problem that's been worked on for a long time, but it can all be tested. If it works you can cut the time it takes to get to Mars from 9 months to 3 days assuming you can speed up to 1G and down again.