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Suppose that some time in the future a clever
group of theorists and experimentalists finally
devise a way to accurately determine the value
of the Hubble Constant. Say by an interferometer
connected to a quantum computer. Everything
works fine in the lab and is checked and checked
again. The trouble starts when photons from
distant stars and galaxies appear to be giving
null results (like the Michaelson-Morely surprise).
A dilemma. IE, stars that should be receeding from
us at great speed appear to be motionless after
all corrections are applied. At first, the mainstream
guys declare the experiment is bunk, but everything
still works in the lab. After much chatter, a scape-goat
PhD is selected to inform the community that the
the red-shift is not inertial(Doppler), but is probably
gravitational. The Big Bang becomes history...and
Einstein's Cosmological Constant is put back into GR.
Psycho-Ceramics (crack-pots) come out of the closet
to explain the so-called "gravitational red-shift", but
only confuse the issue with theories such as "starmass
increase" as stars get further from the observer, and
"dark property" photon drains to account for the photon
energy loss vs distance traveled.
Finally, a bored grad student digs up some simple
black-hole equations and finds out that the singularity
is at the surface of a black-hole, contrary to the popular
belief that the singularity is at the center of a black-hole.
IE, at the center of a black-hole clocks run at normal
speed and at the surface are slowed to a stop relative
to clocks at the center. The grad student now sees
the visible universe as just another very large black-hole;
where clocks slow-down as they get further from an
observer, until they stop near 14 billion LY away. Einstein's
static universe becomes mainstream, the "big-bang" idiots
are fired from their cushy (but low paid) university jobs
and become taxi-cab drivers. Princeton offers the grad
student a great job and Einstein's old house...and she
lives happily ever after...the beginning.
Comments, flames, insults, objections, etc, etc will be
greatefully accepted. Have fun.
group of theorists and experimentalists finally
devise a way to accurately determine the value
of the Hubble Constant. Say by an interferometer
connected to a quantum computer. Everything
works fine in the lab and is checked and checked
again. The trouble starts when photons from
distant stars and galaxies appear to be giving
null results (like the Michaelson-Morely surprise).
A dilemma. IE, stars that should be receeding from
us at great speed appear to be motionless after
all corrections are applied. At first, the mainstream
guys declare the experiment is bunk, but everything
still works in the lab. After much chatter, a scape-goat
PhD is selected to inform the community that the
the red-shift is not inertial(Doppler), but is probably
gravitational. The Big Bang becomes history...and
Einstein's Cosmological Constant is put back into GR.
Psycho-Ceramics (crack-pots) come out of the closet
to explain the so-called "gravitational red-shift", but
only confuse the issue with theories such as "starmass
increase" as stars get further from the observer, and
"dark property" photon drains to account for the photon
energy loss vs distance traveled.
Finally, a bored grad student digs up some simple
black-hole equations and finds out that the singularity
is at the surface of a black-hole, contrary to the popular
belief that the singularity is at the center of a black-hole.
IE, at the center of a black-hole clocks run at normal
speed and at the surface are slowed to a stop relative
to clocks at the center. The grad student now sees
the visible universe as just another very large black-hole;
where clocks slow-down as they get further from an
observer, until they stop near 14 billion LY away. Einstein's
static universe becomes mainstream, the "big-bang" idiots
are fired from their cushy (but low paid) university jobs
and become taxi-cab drivers. Princeton offers the grad
student a great job and Einstein's old house...and she
lives happily ever after...the beginning.
Comments, flames, insults, objections, etc, etc will be
greatefully accepted. Have fun.