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Andy_K
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First of all, sorry for my naive question here which likely doesn't make sense.
The universe is currently expanding with galaxies receding from each other at increasingly faster pace. Is it possible that the universe is a closed hypersphere system, where galaxies are actually not actively "expanding", but instead being gravitationally attracted towards a supermassive black hole (or perhaps, "Big Crunch") that is forming at a faraway point beyond our visible universe?
Could our observable universe be accelerating towards another point of the hypersphere, and while galaxies appear to all "recede away" from us, we are actually all moving in the same direction?
Instead of dark energy causing the expansion, could it be immense gravity from a distant source that is drawing our galaxies over?
Would we be able to distinguish between "expansion" and "attraction"?
Thank you for enlightening me.
The universe is currently expanding with galaxies receding from each other at increasingly faster pace. Is it possible that the universe is a closed hypersphere system, where galaxies are actually not actively "expanding", but instead being gravitationally attracted towards a supermassive black hole (or perhaps, "Big Crunch") that is forming at a faraway point beyond our visible universe?
Could our observable universe be accelerating towards another point of the hypersphere, and while galaxies appear to all "recede away" from us, we are actually all moving in the same direction?
Instead of dark energy causing the expansion, could it be immense gravity from a distant source that is drawing our galaxies over?
Would we be able to distinguish between "expansion" and "attraction"?
Thank you for enlightening me.