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Letter: Dark energy, solved

Published 26 September 2012

From Richard Davies

I really enjoyed your article on neutrinos and the questions they pose for particle physics (8 September, p 30), but surely the answer is obvious. We live in a 10-dimensional space; at the point where matter is created, antimatter forms in a slightly different dimensional arrangement. This shadow universe exerts a gravitational pull – we call it dark matter – while the antimatter-matter interaction produces dark energy. With tongue in cheek, problem solved.

South Cave, East Yorkshire, UK

Issue no. 2884 published 29 September 2012

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