Paradigm shift

Paul Davies in The Goldilocks Enigma asks 'Why is the universe just right for life?' This question simply reinforces a self-fulfilling prophecy in which we will forever wonder at the unlikely combination of circumstances that leads to our existence.

This paradigm is unproductive.

I ask 'What is the form of the universe in which the niche for human life exists?' We know a great deal about that niche. But what do we know about the universe that cradles it?

I believe that this is a more productive paradigm. I shall show that it leads, amongst many other things, to a description of a universe in which dark matter is a manifestation of the universe just beyond the niche that we occupy and observe.