OK. I surrender. I am not here to cause confusion, but rather to learn.
As you have seen, I am of the crowd that is willing to question everything, but it is not my intention to be a disruptive force.
Thanks for the assistance so far.
The cyclic universe model is an old one that is denounced mainly due to our beliefs about entropy. In 2007, a new effort was started to refresh it (see Wiki).
An octant frame allows each section to expand or contract due to pressure. Pressure in such as model requires that space is never...
What is wrong with assuming a fixed size universe, dividing it into 8 octants, and allowing the various octants to expand and contract against each other? In such a situation, could our octant be currently expanding and due to the pressure of our expansion cause one or more adjacent octants to...
I thought that a universe that is ever expanding would have an outer surface. If the Earth was unlucky enough to be on that outer surface, then the redshift would only be observed over one section of our sky. Is that reasonable?
Moving the Earth slightly away from the edge of the expanding...
Yes, I understand what I am asking.
Let me ask one more question that is intricately related to the topic.
Since the Earth is not at the center of the expanding universe, should we not see two basically different types of CMB patterns or gradients of the CM redshift? One showing red shift and...
Sorry Marcus. You are correct. I was recalling Heaviside's work. But I think you clarified my mis-understanding. If I understand correctly, then part of the claim for an expanding universe is that photons from the outer edge of the universe are red-shifted due to the expansion. Is that a...
Sorry, I was not clear. I'm imagining the Big Bang never happened. If so, then can the CMB be explained by microwave emission from the hydrogen clouds that make up 90% of the known (no DM) matter in the universe?
If we think that the CMB is due to the Big Bang, then this makes sense, but what do we think if the CMB is actually due to microwave emission by the endless hydrogen clouds throughout the universe?
What experimental evidence or optical measurements are used to prove that red shift is due to gravitational fields of suns, and is not simply an artefact of light passing through and being diffracted by the matter in the heliosphere of many suns before reaching earth?
Guess I should have specified at what distance would acceleration be observed?
I'm assuming the 2 hydrogen atoms will form a molecule at the end of the cycle.