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Aswad -> RE: I had a crazy idea (8/8/2011 3:53:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
I'm the least person qualified to touch upon this
It isn't the Black Stone.
Touch, or even fondle, the subject as much as you like.
Most of us, myself included, aren't remotely qualified, and even the professionals can hardly be called qualified at this point in history, but without interest, there is no demand, and no production. Besides, several organizations have already realized that non-professionals can sometimes make significant contributions to a field. It's rare, and often accidental, but potentially valuable nonetheless.
Realizing the difference between qualification, enthusiasm and interest is important.
Realizing that all three are valuable is also important.
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, but I think the reason we 'all' aren't moving in the same direction at the same time (as we are expanding outward in all directions) has to do with stars at various points throughout the universe dying at different time, black holes of various sizes forming as consequence - some causing galaxies to collide, and the explosion of energy outward from them. Even if expanding on a curve, there are various energies being applied at different areas in space. How significant each event is, in the whole entirety of the universe, no clue.
Space does derive a sort of topology from the gravitation that results from the influence of mass, much like a sheet of heavy rubber that slowly sinks into a pool will have a shape to it. How much of this topology, and the changes in it, is because of observable matter is one of the key questions in astrophysics at the moment.
As such, you're describing a real factor, but our observations seem to indicate that space is more like an oil slick than a sheet of rubber: the pull of gravity has local effects, but does not appear adequate to control the largest scales. That leads to an expanding universe, just like an oil slick distributes across the surface of a body of water, eventually resulting in droplets that are small enough to be sustained by surface tension, with vast spaces between the droplets. For practical purposes, that is assumed to mean that the Milky Way will at some point be the only part of the universe we can access without exceeding the speed of light, because the other galaxies will have become too distant for us to reach.
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Maybe one could mathematically chart the origin backward, if one could factor in all the variables - ie document and measure each of the explosions in space that transpired since the original Big Bang. All that to say, who is to say we are moving outward equally, since there are so many things happening that we are just now becoming aware of, and so many more we haven't touched upon. Which may be total and complete bullshit, and completely wrong and irrelevant. As I said, I'm the least qualified to touch upon such things.
It is quite relevant to map the variables, as the evolution of the universe has no doubt been influenced by gravity, and that influence is likely to have been greater in certain stages of its evolution than others. We may also be able to locate a centerpoint, which is the next best thing to a point of origin. One study raises the possibility of an origin along a line that appears to point toward Earth.
It may even be the case that our universe originated in a particle accelerator in an incomprehensibly large "outside" universe, where the beings in that universe started experimenting about when the Big Bang occured. To beings of such a large scale, discovering that they can smash two multiverses together to make smaller particles about the size of our universe would be an exciting discovery, most likely. That our universe is a huge thing to us doesn't mean it's a huge thing to such beings, whose cells undoubtedly consist of too many multiverses for us to have a suitable number to describe it, if such beings exist. The inflation of our universe could simply be the effect of their particle accelerator ramping down its magnetic field.
Puts a different perspective on oil in Iraq.
Health,
al-Aswad.
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