Recent content by Ogr8bearded1

Thanks bapowell, I'm still trying to learn all the correct terminology. What I meant to say was that the area of a gravitation bound region could become larger. Such as, our solar system is a certain size now. If the Sun lost mass, such as it will when starts dying, the planets would orbit...

We can't even get everyone to agree that time exists. We can observe and measure its effects but have no understanding of its cause. If time is motion or distance, then time most likely started with the Big Bang or very shortly thereafter. If time can be separate from space then it could have...

They aren't older, but further away than normal expansion can explain. This is where inflation comes into play. Somehow, it appears that space became larger, for want of a better word, between our planet and a source. Space with gravitation bound entities expand slowly in their region but no...

Fairly sure I read or saw on a programme that the first stars formed about 10 billion years ago. They were huge short lived stars composed of hydrogen. From other sources I've read, at this point only hydrogen, helium and lithium were most likely in existence with other elements being formed...

Part of what he was saying sounded more like Chaotic Inflation Theory, which is in some ways similar to Hoyle's Steady State Model. I can see how someone could view Inflation as 'Big Banger still banging away.' I can also see how some could call it speculation and then I wonder how we could...

D H and bapowell both gave good answers. It is the Conservation of Angular Momentum that is keeping us from falling into the Sun as you asked. There are two kinds of angular momentum as you asked. Our rotation on our axis is slowing due to a transference of momentum to the Moon. Since the Moon...

I didn't think you were being critical but that I had missed something in my example as presented. In fact, I was pleased when you said it had you mulling it over as it meant that I was actually able to contribute to your effort. In simplifying my analogy I think I entered into my own L2C...

Marcus, first off, I am a layman and really one of the people an article such as you are proposing could help :) That said, I had thought by tying the speed of the escalator to Hubble would allow for the backward, steady and forward motions as the photon traveled to its destination and perhaps I...

Would this be a good visual of how the expansion is working? Imagine an escalator going up and you are walking down. One step down equals one light year travelled. For every x steps you take, another step appears at the bottom of the escalator. You have to travel every step that was between you...

As one layman to another, perhaps it is the view that is off and causing problems. Maybe time is outside of what you are trying to say. I'll give an example. I'm in a car traveling North so my direction to all I can see is North. However the Earth is rotating, so to an observer not on Earth it...

Does the lack of asymmetry take into account the latest Planck data? I'm curious because of what I read here from http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Planck_reveals_an_almost_perfect_Universe specifically the following "Another is an asymmetry in the average temperatures on...

Thanks for your help also Mordred. Actually what I was trying to visualise came to me after reading the following which was linked from a link in your first post here. I had actually gone there to read after seeing you had linked it in another post. Maybe some geometry would help me understand...

Thanks Bandersnatch that is what I thought, then my Attention Deficit set me off on the Mobius Strip thing(at least others say its AD, to me its just new questions popping up to explore,) did the other things make what I was trying to describe easier to understand? If not, then I guess trying to...

Hi Mordred, you are right and I shouldn't have started with a concept as before the Big Bang. The model can account for both finite and infinite space. If finite there would be a curvature and stretching while only curvature in the case of infinite. And yes, though to my mind depression and...

I have no formal training in this field. What I do know I have garnered from reading various publications or watching videos. I understand that the balloon analogy isn't popular, partly because once you say balloon people have trouble not thinking about a balloon. What I intend here is to lay...