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Re: universe expanding, not from any particular spot



At 21:09 8/13/00 -0400, you wrote:

I was looking at the Big bang possibility as a side issue to being
spewed out of the larger source....

Lisa Gardner (age 9 11/12 yrs)

It has been a noticeable feature of Western cosmology that its
sequential revisions are in the longer direction in terms of time.
From a few thousand to a few million to a few billion years.

One Eastern cosmology at least has cleaved to a longer cycle of events.

In some statistical sense, every phenomenon that has been examined
scientifically has been subject to some cycle of transformation
and change: said simply - nothing comes from nothing.

However, in terms of mathematics, the singular event at a zero or
infinity is all too easy to develop, and cosmology being a sphere
of activity to which mathematicians and mathematical physicists
are attracted, it should not be surprizing that the dominant theory
involves a singularity, beyond which, nothing is said to be knowable.

The current cosmology also invokes inflation which may be
thought of as a convenient exception whereby the metric can explode
at some multiple of c for some lengthy interval, or to put it in
another more cynical way, this inflation is a necessary epicycle
in a current theory of the divine clockwork.

I would not be overwhelmed if, in the long passage of time, some
fine mind captures a constructive view of the universe that permits
or demands some repetitious cycling of the materials of the universal
fabric, and even conceives evidence to support that idea.

Evidence is the crucial component: without it one has merely a
belief system or religion - such as the believers in gravity waves
or quarks currently hold. (This is not quite fair - one can easily argue
that these constructs are supported by evidence of the kind that
Sherlock Holmes might call the 'dogs that do not bark'.)


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!