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Consider the following thought experiment. Let us assume that these voids are Dark Energy, or something like it, and exist by themselves in irregularly shaped domains like bubbles in a washing machine or oil drops in water. Let us also say that if the universe is comprised of eleven dimensions, so are these domains. If we further assume that these domains are expanding, eventually two or more boundaries will impact one another. Keep in mind that these domains are many millions of light years across and, unlike matter, their boundaries would have no defined edge. As these boundaries grind into one another, like cosmic tectonic plates, the concentration of Dark Energy would increase in the areas of contact to the point where normal matter could squeeze out; not unlike the way water precipitates from a cloud.

Only I don't think it would be exactly like that. Once rain falls out of a cloud, it remains rain. It is more likely that that the appearance of matter, in these regions, would be a dynamic condition brought about by the extraordinary pressure of colliding domains. This, of course, is exactly the opposite of how we are used to seeing it. Matter produces energy. But given that there's vastly more energy in the universe than matter, isn't it worth considering the possibility that energy is responsible for matter?

It certainly would help to explain the cause of quantum jitter. If this is how the universe, as we know it, came into existence, it might mean that everything we experience, all matter and energy, and we ourselves, are being continuously synthesized and maintained on-the-fly, as a consequence of Dark Energy domains interacting with one another. The only places where regular matter could ever exist would be within these regions of contact. Were it to happen that some ordinary matter wandered too far from a boundary edge, it would most likely dissipate into the energy waves from which it was created. So start looking. If it should happen that ordinary matter can be found inside a void; then what I've just proposed in this last paragraph, is probably wrong.

In light of my previous argument, I believe the force we feel pulling us towards the Earth may not be an effect caused by its mass. The mass of the Earth may itself be the effect of these opposing Dark Energy domains "pushing" time/space together. Rather than seeing gravity as bent space caused by the presence of matter, or a force generated by matter pulling on other matter, it may be more correct to see gravity as a weaker, longer range version of the the strong force pushing matter together. In fact, all of the known forces, strong weak, electromagnetic and gravity, may be different manifestations of this single force, Dark Energy.