I chime in, you may call me a crackpot after this :-P

The problem starts with understanding that whole thing about the 'expanding universe'. People generally get that all the galaxies have their own motion, relative to us and everything else. And headline "they are all moving away from each other" is taken as read by most of us.

The 'expanding universe' notion happens to be just one of the possible explanation of the red shift of light. Another possible explanation is that gravitation isn't always positive (attractive) but slightly negative after a certain distance, travelling from a gravitational center, resulting in repulsion and causing slowdown of light, or lower frequency. Which doesn't mean, that the universe is not expanding! It might well be (and it sounds reasonable) that space unfolds as time goes along, since they are coupled. I'm not sure about space being the same size, it could be shrinking by the time...

History of science shows that things look overwhelmingly different after opening ways of thinking different. Take the transition to the heliocentric view, for instance. And there's always some neglected evidence at the root of such change.

Take the 'beginning of time'. There is no 'before' before that beginning, since 'before' is nonsensical without time. At the 'moment' time comes into existence (which moment is 0, zero, niente, zilch, since there's nothing to place that moment into or relate it to), it must come into existence threefold: as past, present, and future, so there are three zeroes here, and without those three zeroes there would be no transition. As time goes on, space unfolds. This is rather different from the big bang theory ;-)

Or look at the earth. Did the continents crack apart from Gondwana just because? or is it that at some time of its life earth has been "blown up", i.e. been growing? Does it still grow? Is the energy (=matter) absorbed from the sun equal to the amount irradiated? Hmm...

I personally believe that e.g. the Maxwell equations, Newtons gravitational laws, even Einsteins equations - do describe special cases of something more general.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^5: [OT] A prediction. by shmem
in thread [OT] A prediction. by BrowserUk

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