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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
watching a show about telescopes I was struck by this last night. background.
Up until this century the universe was seen as STATIC, neither expanding nor contracting.
Hubble discovered that nearly everything in our sky (stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc.) seems to be receding away from us. This led to the expanding universe theory, and the Big bang Theory, which have been fairly well confirmed.
everyone assumed that the universe started expanding super fast and has slowed dwn over the billiosn of years due to gravitational pull of all matter in universe.
tests done by scientists in the 80's and 90's showed that surprisingly, the expansion of the universe is accelerating! thisled people to posit the existence of a dark energy (energy we cannot yet detect) that is driving this expansion.
Now... to me that has always sounded like a crazy make-em-up.
this is what I wrote last night.
a universeexpands, ("Big Bang") irregularities begin to form
matter coalesces into clumps eventually resulting in the various galaxies we see
as local gravitation centers create these "clumps" they also create spaces of empty void.
originally, gravity would slow down expansion of Universe quite aggressively, but since gravity decreases as the SQUARE of the distance there would have to be a moment in the Universe's expansion when, as the clumps are separating themselves
from each other with ever-increasing voids, the collective Universal gravitational pull would decrease ever
faster allowing for the continuing burst of the expansion to have ever more power in the "outward" manner as the
gravity of the whole has in the "inward" manner. would this explain why the universe appears to us now, 15-18 BILLION years (at least) later to be steadily , to be increasing in it's rate of expansion from our local point of view? does this make sense?
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I believe the answer is yes.
The expansion continues and even increases because the gravity increases to a point of condensation in which the condensed energy become excessive and expands against the inward pull, sort of like winding a rubber band back, it will inevitably swing forward. Remember gravity is part of the mechanics of every atom and atomic particle, and acts on the sub-atomic level, and so is fundamentally different then the casual or common sense experience of gravity. In my own interpretation, gravity is the endless decay of death which attempts to implode EVERYTHING, where as the bursting energy of livity brings about the contrary expansion which creates the balance.
on another note, hubble observations speculate the age of this version of the universe to be approximately 14 billion years, and current estimates place the human population over its entire and current existence to be approximately 14 billion people, thats a person a year.. the kind of "coincidences" that occur like the fact that the salinity of your blood is the exact same as the salinity of the ocean.