For centuries scientists describe the basic particles of nature as miniscule orbs and dots.  These components are the atoms and even smaller particles of which they made up.  The snare theory states that the core of each piece of matter exists of a very small vibrating thread of energy; a snare.  These snares of energy like stick to a membrane.  The past few years physicists have begun to theorize that our universe might actually be a three-dimensional "membrane" (four-dimensional if you add time following the dictates of special relativity) that lies within a much higher (eleven)-dimensional super-space (or super-space-time). 

There could also be more of those membranes, called “M branes”.  The M stands for Magic or Mystery. These M branes behave like water surfaces stacked on top of each other, with very little room to spare.  The idea is that when the waves of two of those parallel dimensions touch, an enormous amount of energy is produced that causes a “Big Bang”.  So, our “Big Bang” probably wasn’t the first Big Bang, and our universe probably wasn’t the last universe and there could well be more of those universes be at hand in Space.

For over two decades astronomers have been searching for the apparent "dark matter" that is thought to be responsible for gravitational effects (the arms) in the rotations of galaxies, the virial motions in clusters of galaxies, and other astrophysical anomalies. It has been thought that 90 percent of the matter in the Universe must consist of dark matter; nonluminous clouds of dust and gas blocking our view of what's behind it. But the extra dimensional ideas of modern super string and M-brane theory have begun to open yet another possibility: that there is no dark matter within our Universe after all; rather that the gravitational force of matter in adjacent membrane-universes is spreading out and spilling over into our universe. In other words, entire other universes might exist a tiny fraction of an inch away from our Universe in one or more extra dimensions. We cannot see these universes because their photons of light are stuck to their membrane-universe just like our photons are stuck to our membrane-universe, but gravitational forces can reach from one membrane-universe to another.

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