[cosvis]

Dear Michael and ScottAnfield and all.

Thank you, Michael, for welcoming me to TOE Quest; it seems to be a very interesting site. It is a good forum to share one's ideas on our beautiful universe.

I am glad, ScottAnfield, that you have the same ideas of the eternal universe and may be we have many similar ideas on the cosmos. I like your idea of energy and a black hole. I believe that Einstein held, and it is commonly held by scientists, that energy cannot be created or distroyed. There is certainly lots of energy in the universe; it is all around us. If there is energy and it cannot be created or distroyed it must have existed from the very beginning and it will exist until eternity. While energy exists and it will most probably exist for ever, it is also true that energy is not infinite but finite. To me infinite energy is impossible or everything should at least be gold.

To me the basic understanding of the universe starts with the understanding of its basic stuff, energy. According to Einstein, everything can be converted to energy. (E= mcc) The basic form of energy is a photon, it travels at the speed of light in a vacuum; and we also know its quantity, a Plank constant.

Einstein speculated and it has been shown to be a fact, that light travelling from distant galaxies is affected by the gravitational pull of a star like our sun. If light which consists of a bundle of photons, is affected by the gravitational pull of a body of mass, than it must also have a gravitational element with a gravitational effect because gravitation can only work between two gravitational bodies. However, a photon travelling at the speed of light can not have relativity mass because according to Einstein no body with relativity mass can travel at the speed of light. If the photon has no relativity mass but does exhibit a gravitational effect, than it must have virtual mass eg. a mass not affected by the laws of relativity but still exhibiting a gravitational effect. Could this possible lead to an explanation of the dark matter speculated about to explain the missing matter of the universe?

Yours Cosvis.