An anisotropic and inhomogeneous exact solution is found to the empty 2N dimensional superspace Einstein field equations. The solution has N fermionic and N bosonic coordinates. This solution has the superspace reversal symmetries. This solution has not been created by the gauge transformations. The solution includes the fermionic (anticommutative) and bosonic (commutative) coordinates at the fermion-boson sector of the metric, symmetrically.

The inflationary phase of the evolution of the ten dimensional universe is considered. The form of the stress-energy tensor of the matter in the very early universe is determined by making use of some thermodynamical arguments. In this way, the Einstein field equations are written and some inflationary cosmological solution is found to these equations in which, while the actual dimensions are exponentially expanding, the others are contracting.

A short history of the discovery of gravitationally attracting dark matter and anti-gravitating repelling dark energy together making up ~ 96% of the stuff of the universe is given. My thesis is that both are exotic w = -1 vacuum phases of post-inflation residual negative and positive zero point density respectively with both gravity and torsion emerging from the cohered zero point energies of the pre-inflation unstable false vacuum of massless quantum fields.

Although theories and speculations abound, there is no consensus on the origin or cause of gravity. Presumably, this status of affair is due to the lack of any experimental guidance. In this paper, we will discuss its ontological origin, implications and potential applications by thinking outside the mainstream notions of general relativity and quantum gravity.

Should Einstein’s general relativity be quantized in the usual way even though it is not renormalizable the way the spin 1/2 lepto-quark – spin 1 gauge force boson local field theories are? Condensed matter theorists using P.W. Anderson’s “More is different” approach, consistent with Andrei Sakharov’s idea of “metric elasticity” with gravity emergent out of quantum electrodynamic zero point vacuum fluctuations, is the approach I take in this paper.