Dark Forces and Bulk-Brane Interactions: A Symbiotic Relationship?
Unpacking Dark Energy Pervasive Nature and Other 4D Spacetime Dynamics.
Disclaimer 2
In my last post, I explored a distinct perspective on how physics allows us to see the universe differently, discussing how spacetime geometry can affect photons and the scientific theories that provide a backdrop for a multidimensional perspective of reality. This post builds on those foundational ideas, using big cosmological and physics words to further develop the Hyperdimensional Resonance Theory (HRT) foundations. If you find the terminology or prose challenging, I strongly recommend you to copy and paste any part of these articles into an AI chat to seek explanations more tailored to your personal perspective. And if you haven’t already, I seriously recommend you to give part one a read before diving into this one.
This is part two of a three-part series titled: The Nature of Light & Dark Energy—Exploring the Interplay of Physics, Consciousness, and Hidden Dimensions. In these articles, I weave multidisciplinary narratives to build a rather relevant thought experiment: How connected are us humans to everything around us? And rather than resorting to faith to answer this question, I try to navigate how science, philosophy and seemly disconnected ideas can coalesce into a new body of thought for the interconnection between life, our universe and what we perceive as common reality.
I approach this as an integrative theorist on the philosophy of physics, science, social sciences and seemly disconnected literature, but not as some sort of guru peddling crystals. However, I certainly aim these words to those who are seeking meaning, for the unquiet minds who crave for ideas that go beyond what is currently available in esoteric, scientific and perhaps even theological texts. This series is designed to make you think, to explore interconnected perspectives, to push the boundaries of scientific imagination, inviting you to question how you see reality and to take intellectual risks that transcend siloed narratives that rarely dare to construct holistic developments.
In the previous post, I introduced HRT as a metatheory that offers thought-provoking narratives for how higher dimensional membranes, or branes, provide a more feasible depiction our universe. Here, we resume this narrative, leveraging HRT foundations to describe possibilities and explore more uncommon ideas.
Abstract
This post continues the exploration of Hyperdimensional Resonance Theory (HRT) by examining the enigmatic phenomena of dark energy, dark matter, and spacetime geometry through the lens of bulk-brane interactions. Building on foundational physics concepts from the ΛCDM model, quantum field theory, brane cosmology and M-theory, this article reinterprets the nature of vacuum and cosmological dynamics, describing dark energy as an emergent phenomenon of hyperspace substrates. By integrating mathematics, philosophy, and scientific conjectures, this piece fuses and challenges traditional and new narratives to inspire new ideas.
Long before becoming a term used to describe cell phones, televisions and ultimately getting vastly hijacked by a dystopian TV show, “Black Mirror” was a term used to describe a mystical divination instrument, a tool used for scrying, to talk to spirits and to see what lies “beyond”, it was made out of polished obsidian stones or even a bowl of water, as Nostradamus used it.
Coincidence or not, and as far as I’m aware, the pupils of every being on Earth are also all black, not because of some mystical property though, but because it is where the absorption of light (or photons) takes place, so the retina may then activate its photoreceptors, translating biochemical input into an electrical input that can then stimulate retinal neurons, so that lifeforms may finally do whatever other processes they can with it, including thinking about it or merely capture random optical data.
And while the fact that pupils absorb light is quite popular, what is interesting to me here is that apparently all galaxies (or at least most of them) also happen to have black holes or even supermassive black holes right at their center. And odd or not, black holes are notorious for … yes you guessed that right: they also absorb light. One of the many coincidences of our universe, and certainly a galactic one.
Should esoteric coincidences have a place in science we would have scientists saying that all of this—the black mirrors, the black screens of our TVs and cellphones, our pupils and the black holes—are all traces of a mystically fine-tuned universe, where everything in it conspires for the existence of life and everything else, providing substance for the anthropic principle. But science and theology do not like each other, and the world we see today, all its technologies and social advancements, were largely built on scientific evidence and hard-coded engineering, not on mystical thinking.
However, there are aspects of reality that do demands more of science than what we can currently use it to explain, and in this fine thread between mystical ideas and unexplainable phenomena that should eventually be addressed with research and scientific inquiry is exactly where the ideas of this article should live, so lets tackle the big question: Dark energy, vacuum, dark matter, spacetime geometry, the hyperspace and the very nature of perceived reality, are these symbiotic or interrelated concepts? Or in other words, does life depends on the universe as it is, as a byproduct of it, or is everything interconnected? This author believes the latter.
Physical constraints of reality
First and foremost, we should address one particular oversimplification over nothing: it does not exist. More specifically, the understanding of vacuum, as being “empty” is a giant misnomer. Of course, at cosmological or even galactic scales we can say there exists an incredibly low particle density between things, but we have radiation, cosmic rays, particles: The universe is never empty and in fact, the universe is actually where everything we know to exist do exist, so there is no such thing as empty or nothing in it. And even in quantum electrodynamics (where vacuum is known as QED vacuum) the term describes a state with no matter/particles and no photons, but it refers to a mathematical state, a model, because any “empty” will always have either radiation, energy, particles, electromagnetic fields/waves or all of them together.
But why am I talking about vacuum at all? To contest our understanding of it.
Wikipedia definition of vacuum, as of December 2024 is: The strictest criterion to define a vacuum is a region of space and time where all the components of the stress–energy tensor are zero. This means that this region is devoid of energy and momentum, and by consequence, it must be empty of particles and other physical fields (such as electromagnetism) that contain energy and momentum.
For HRT there is no such thing. Vacuum, as we have grown to believe is what lies outside of Earth and permeates the universe, is never only a vacuum and such aether should be in the very least, understood as so. HRT postulates that what we term vacuum should be more broadly known to be a “cosmic fluid” or medium in which everything propagates, including time, so that the answer for “what do planets stand on?” reflects an understand of this “cosmic fluid” or a “universal field ensemble” or sorts. For HRT, we must broadly acknowledge that, were we all exist, all the plants, animals and the Earth itself, we are all swimming in an ocean of forces, we’re immersed in a complex soup of fields, particles and waves. While it is questionable if fishes might or not conceptualize water as their medium, we can recognize that air, the emptiness of space, even our own bodies, are all fine tuned to exist atop of this immense cosmic fluid. It must become common knowledge that we swim in:
Put another way, our spacetime “takes place” on this ocean of hyperspace substrates that interacts with our 3-brane reality, which ultimately gets constrained by the limitations of relativistic physics that govern baryonic constitutions common of ordinary matter. Point being, what we witness as being our spacetime, our universe, isn’t all that it is (💡from M-theory and Brane cosmology perspectives).
Some of these forces: the Neutrino, Dark Energy, Gravitational waves, and the ZPF, are traversing our very bodies at all times, not interacting with our cells and tissues, not interacting with rocks, trees, or the Earth itself. And electromagnetic waves are not only directly interacting with our bodies and technologies, they are also responsible for our vast biosphere and all ecology as we experience it. Cosmic rays are largely deflected by Earth’s magnetosphere, but what gets through it, changes our environment, our atmosphere and ultimately our very lives.
Visualized, all these forces combined make up the “nothing” around us, something like:
💡Tip: You can paste the graph URI in your browser address bar to see it in vector art.
In the graph above you can spot expanding red circles as CMB, moving green dots for neutrinos, wavy lines for electromagnetic waves, cosmic rays as diagonal streaks, quantum fields at the bottom, and dark energy as a subtle dotted background pattern to represent its uniform presence throughout space. Every time we look around, these things are all around us, filling the “empty” void around everything—including the fabric of spacetime—and our eyes only capture what is within the orange wave range.
A Hyperspatial Brain Teaser
For cosmology (and the ΛCDM model), the cosmological constant (Λ) is the general relativity’s way to describe a constant energy density inherent to spacetime, a fixed value that does not change regardless of time or location. But here lies a problem, called cosmological constant problem (or the vacuum catastrophe) and it highlights the failure to reconcile quantum-scale vacuum energy with the cosmological-scale effects as described by general relativity.
You see, quantum field theory (QFT) predicts vacuum energy as a potential source of Λ, because the vacuum is seen as the ground state of all quantum fields, which for QFT are never at rest—its vacuum energy is a non-zero value. As the value of this ground state contributes to an energy density, vacuum fluctuations can influence spacetime geometry similarly to Λ. On the other hand, general relativity’s Λ depicts a form of energy inherent to the fabric of spacetime itself, but both are attempts to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe, attributed to what we came to call “dark energy” in both theories.
But the reason why vacuum energy can’t simply “be” Λ is QFT predicts a vacuum energy value vastly larger than the observed value of Λ in general relativity, which is the “vacuum catastrophe” problem: the discrepancy between theory and observation.
But HRT does not see the universe with the same eyes, as for HRT even a vacuum isn’t a vacuum, no matter how many may sneer at this conjecture. So maybe what we witness as vacuum energy or Λ are but a byproduct of a much more complex interplay between all forces that constitute HRT’s proposed “cosmic fluid”. But given HRT builds upon M-theory and Brane cosmology principles, I can then fine tune a more compelling approach to address the cosmological constant problem: dark energy arises from bulk-brane interactions over the ocean of hyperspace substrates of the bulk, and the observed acceleration of the universe described by dark energy is then how spacetime geometry physics manifest as projected phenomena in our 3-brane. Or put another way: vacuum energy leakage into higher dimensions (the bulk) would explain the mismatch, where Λ is then a 4D projection of this hyperdimensional leak. This dynamic can be formulated as:
Where:
Λ₄D is observed dark energy effects in 4D;
ΛH represents the vacuum energy in the bulk (higher-dimensional space);
PE(ΛH) is a projection operator for energy density contributions of the bulk to our 4D spacetime observables.;
Pκ(ΛH) projects the effects of bulk curvature on the 4D geometry, which could link higher-dimensional space to accelerated expansion;
ΔB accounts for local boundary effects between the brane and the bulk, potentially capturing anisotropies or perturbations that influence Λ₄D.
By doing so, HRT reconceptualizes dark energy as an emergent phenomenon from bulk-brane interactions, avoiding the QFT vacuum energy calculation problem by positioning dark energy as a higher-dimensional manifestation rather than a fundamental property of quantum fields and the GR model, perhaps even accounting for quintessence proposed dynamics.
Of course, this interpretation relies on many theories, namely brane-world scenarios, string theory, LED and M-theory concepts. But perhaps most importantly, it suggests a similar conjecture to the LED interpretation of graviton dynamics, which addresses the hierarchy problem by implying gravity is weak because of its propagation into extra dimensions. HRT interpretation then sees Λ isotropic manifestation as a special relativity projection of this interaction, not as a constant by itself, but as a condition of its 3-brane imposed properties, that must abide to general relativity.
For QFT, this won’t explain why vacuum energy is what it is or why it has the value it does in the higher dimensions, HRT shifts the problem to a different setting that has to be explored by focusing on bulk geometry, brane dynamics, perhaps even temperature or other conditions within the bulk and its curvature, mostly involving boundary conditions, but in doing so, this would not only address the value mismatch, would also improve LED, brane cosmology and M-theory conjectures. For general relativity, HRT proposition provides a mechanism for dark energy to be an emergent phenomenon arising from higher-dimensional physics, rather than a fundamental constant of nature, which is perhaps a more reasonable depiction for dark energy.
Ultimately, real cosmological data and boundary effects investigations may provide a match between vacuum energy and Λ, optimizing HRT’s simplified formulation above to explicitly solve a much more fundamental problem.
Impacts Over the Speed of Light, Other Constants and Bulk Relations
Within the HRT framework, fundamental constants are not arbitrary values but rather emergent properties arising from the geometry of a higher-dimensional bulk spacetime and its interaction with our 3-brane universe. Drawing upon concepts from M-theory and brane cosmology, HRT proposes that our observable universe is confined to a 3-brane embedded within a higher-dimensional space, where the extra dimensions are compactified into a complex internal space, such as a Calabi-Yau manifold. Then the shape, size, and topology of this compactified space determine the boundary conditions that constrain the physics observed on our 3-brane.
Just as HRT reframes dark energy and photons as a manifestation of bulk-brane interactions, the speed of light (c ≈ 299,792,458) emerges as a geometric constraint imposed by these boundary conditions. Rather than being an intrinsic property of the vacuum, c then represents the limit at which hyperspace dynamics project onto our 4D spacetime as observable electromagnetic phenomena. The constancy of c arises from the stability of these boundary conditions, determined by the fixed geometry of the compactified extra dimensions. This is analogous to how surface waves on an ocean maintain consistent properties regardless of the ocean’s depth—c emerges as a surface property of our 3-brane, stable despite the complex dynamics of the underlying bulk. Photons, being massless, represent the quantum threshold of these bulk-brane interactions, existing precisely at this boundary. Baryonic matter, with its reliance on the specific laws and constants of special and general relativity, is seen to be constrained to exist within these 3-brane boundary conditions, explaining why no baryonic matter can exceed c: its very existence is contingent upon these relativistic constraints. In contrast, phenomena such as dark energy, which HRT proposes to originate in the bulk, are not subject to the same restrictions.
Other constants, such as the gravitational constant (G), Planck’s constant (ħ), and the fine-structure constant (α), are then also hypothesized to be determined by different aspects of this higher-dimensional geometry, representing different facets of how the bulk interacts with and influences the observable physics on our 3-brane.
Local spacetime geometry, then, can be understood as the interface where bulk interactions manifest in our observable universe, where as similar to how dark energy emerges from PE (ΛH ) and Pκ(ΛH) projections, local spacetime geometry arises from the resonance patterns/interplay between bulk dynamics and brane constraints, a concept that can be formulated as:
Where:
G₄D represents observable local geometry;
GH represents the underlying hyperspace geometry;
PG projects bulk geometric properties into 4D spacetime;
PR accounts for local resonance patterns;
ΔL describes local boundary conditions.
This formulation suggests that while bulk interactions are complex and multidimensional, their manifestation in our relativistic universe is constrained by geometric boundary conditions—imposed by the geometry of the compactified extra dimensions—that maintain consistent local physics while allowing for larger-scale phenomena like dark energy and cosmic expansion to be observed. Of course, this is a simplification of a more complex relationship that can be expressed by:
So What Does Vacuum, Dark Energy and Reality Have in Common?
The ΛCDM model tells us that dark energy makes up about 70% of the universe, with dark matter and baryonic matter comprising the remaining 30%, with ordinary matter —including planets, stars, and everything we see around us—accounting for a mere 5% of this total. Pervading across all of spacetime, dark energy’s extremely low density its effects can only be observable at cosmological scales, but at local scale and given Earth’s mass-energy density, whatever gravitational effect on us here is negligible at best (dark energy does not interact with ordinary matter through the electromagnetic, weak, or strong forces,) which does not mean it is not around us all the time, but that our current technology effectively treats local dark energy effects as ground zero. Just as about 100 trillion neutrinos—which unlike dark energy, do have mass—pass through our bodies every second without interacting with our own atoms, we are constantly immersed in dark energy, a background component of spacetime, even though we do not experience it directly in any significant form.
Under HRT assumptions, there is no such thing as empty, nor as vacuum, and the universe as we experience from Earth, is permeated by this ocean of hyperspace substrates whose dynamics dictate how spacetime properties are expressed around our reality. Light, as we perceive and model with our instruments, it thus understood to be a manifestation of the same substrate: Its projection into our 4D spacetime is integrally determined by the interaction of fundamental forces within our brane, dictating its speed, properties, and ultimately, the fine-tuned biochemical processes that enable life on Earth to experience visual data and interact with matter via this electromagnetic phenomena.
And strangely, just as photons entering our pupils ignite cascades of biochemical light, shaping our personal realities, so too might these hyperspace dynamics, traversing the dark cosmic expanse, shape collective reality on a grander scale, weaving all that exists into a profound interconnectedness across all possible dimensions.
In the next post, titled “Consciousness, Energy, and Life: An Uncommon Perspective” I build upon the bold concepts from part one and two of the HRT series to propose a remarkably interesting hypothesis and new ideas about how life, and both personal and collective perspectives can all be part of a major dynamic that spans across time and space. Drawing from fascinating theories and ideas from renowned scholars and intellectuals, the final installment elucidates how HRT forges a comprehensive multidisciplinary metatheory, seeking common ground between faith and science to inspire and spark fresh ideas.