JEL
07-19-03, 10:37 AM
Could it be that the universe is not expanding, but rather energy decreasing in strength?
edit: I am not talking about the universe not _growing_ (space between galaxies growing), but rather; maybe not _expanding_ (space between particles growing, or energy in particles decreasing in some way)
If all energy slowly fades towards zero energy, light for instance, wouldn't it be possible that the expanding universe is then just an illusion we see because light simply gets more and more 'tired' over time?
I am not talking about a light-line that would start strong in the beginning end, and then fade the further it traveled. Instead I am talking about a decrease that happens on the whole line simultaniously.
Did bigbang happen with infinite energy? If it did not, the vibration and 'life' of all particles, molecules and so forth, should fade over time (all particles fading at the same speed and absolute time)
We measure everything against light-speed, right? But what if lightspeed is slowly diminishing in power? Or lowering the 'main-frequency' maybe. We wouldn't see the change itself, but only the effects of it (increasing distances where we always appear to be in the center of motion (everything is moving away from us))
A side-related issue:
Usually we picture the expansion of the universe by comparing the motion of galaxies to the growing distance between dots drawn on a 2-D surface of a ballon being filled with air.
That's not problem to me. If I'm inside a sort of 'aquarium' and the water molecules expand in size, the same thing would happen, and so there is no center from witch the expansion takes place (one will always perceive the expansion as if one were at it's center. Everything will move away from you at same speed nomatter which way you look). And therefore some say there is no center to the universe.
I say that's not neccessarily correct.
Another way of picturing this could be by looking at a balloon full of small plasticballs slowly growing in size (imagine this is in microgravity). Only those in the center would actually lay still, while all others would be moving (they all push on eachother equally on all sides). Those at the edge would be moving the fastest (outwards)
But from any ball, the expansion would appear to happen outwards from _their_ location (as if they where at the center)
They can't see there own expansion-speed in relation to the universe' center, and thus they always appear centered themselves.
I think there _is_ a center-of-origin to the universe.
Are there any notable differences in the deep-universe, in any directions, when one looks outwards from earth?
Does it perhaps look 'thinner' in one direction? Or more dense maybe.
I would suspect that the center-of-origin of the universe, would be located in the direction where the oldest galaxies are found (and then be somewhere in between us and those. If we call the direction towards the suspected center 'prograde', we should then look retrograde and compare how dense the universe appears. From this difference maybe it could be somewhat calculated where the center-of-origin might be). Question is; can we really see to the edge of the universe? Or is it like looking underwater; where light just fades and there appears to be an edge.
Can anyone enlighten me? Or maybe tell me why I might be right and why I might be wrong? Or just speculate further?
All logic would have a center-of-origin from any explosion, so why shouldn't the universe?
And then ofcourse the 'expanding or fading' thoughts as well. I know it's 2 things at once, but I hope you don't mind :)
edit: I am not talking about the universe not _growing_ (space between galaxies growing), but rather; maybe not _expanding_ (space between particles growing, or energy in particles decreasing in some way)
If all energy slowly fades towards zero energy, light for instance, wouldn't it be possible that the expanding universe is then just an illusion we see because light simply gets more and more 'tired' over time?
I am not talking about a light-line that would start strong in the beginning end, and then fade the further it traveled. Instead I am talking about a decrease that happens on the whole line simultaniously.
Did bigbang happen with infinite energy? If it did not, the vibration and 'life' of all particles, molecules and so forth, should fade over time (all particles fading at the same speed and absolute time)
We measure everything against light-speed, right? But what if lightspeed is slowly diminishing in power? Or lowering the 'main-frequency' maybe. We wouldn't see the change itself, but only the effects of it (increasing distances where we always appear to be in the center of motion (everything is moving away from us))
A side-related issue:
Usually we picture the expansion of the universe by comparing the motion of galaxies to the growing distance between dots drawn on a 2-D surface of a ballon being filled with air.
That's not problem to me. If I'm inside a sort of 'aquarium' and the water molecules expand in size, the same thing would happen, and so there is no center from witch the expansion takes place (one will always perceive the expansion as if one were at it's center. Everything will move away from you at same speed nomatter which way you look). And therefore some say there is no center to the universe.
I say that's not neccessarily correct.
Another way of picturing this could be by looking at a balloon full of small plasticballs slowly growing in size (imagine this is in microgravity). Only those in the center would actually lay still, while all others would be moving (they all push on eachother equally on all sides). Those at the edge would be moving the fastest (outwards)
But from any ball, the expansion would appear to happen outwards from _their_ location (as if they where at the center)
They can't see there own expansion-speed in relation to the universe' center, and thus they always appear centered themselves.
I think there _is_ a center-of-origin to the universe.
Are there any notable differences in the deep-universe, in any directions, when one looks outwards from earth?
Does it perhaps look 'thinner' in one direction? Or more dense maybe.
I would suspect that the center-of-origin of the universe, would be located in the direction where the oldest galaxies are found (and then be somewhere in between us and those. If we call the direction towards the suspected center 'prograde', we should then look retrograde and compare how dense the universe appears. From this difference maybe it could be somewhat calculated where the center-of-origin might be). Question is; can we really see to the edge of the universe? Or is it like looking underwater; where light just fades and there appears to be an edge.
Can anyone enlighten me? Or maybe tell me why I might be right and why I might be wrong? Or just speculate further?
All logic would have a center-of-origin from any explosion, so why shouldn't the universe?
And then ofcourse the 'expanding or fading' thoughts as well. I know it's 2 things at once, but I hope you don't mind :)