Of course I have a rich life to live, but I found it effective to really concentrate on just one theme at one time. particularly timespace, energytime,mattertime for now, and find it enlightening to hold and mold models of the expanding sphere in my hands, coconuts, nuts period.
Yes I approach things in a similar manner but I tend to concentrate on lunch time, dinner time and bed time ☺and note that my energy certainly is not as readily created as easily as it is destroyed.
My armchair obsession was "how does gravity work" (what is the geometry describing) and what interaction could take place between particles to manifest the force we call attraction and indeed gravity.
After some time I formed the idea that gravity could be ( or I reasoned "must be" as we do with our pet ideas) a play between all the stuff in the universe acting like a push or pressure.
Fortunately after some years I found that the idea had been covered as early as 1745 by Le Sage and indeed well addressed such that I could obsess over something else.
The Le Sage idea treats gravity as a physical force, indeed it could be best described as the pressure of the ether... a push rather than a pull.
The GR model for gravity needs neither a force or an ether for it is entirely a coordinate system and although geometry it is nevertheless geometry at its finest. And geometry cant be wrong even though what it can be used to build may not exist (the design of a star wars inter galactic space ship) or used to design something that will rxist say the tallest building...it does the bidding of its master.
I think if we could for a moment realise that GR although not needing an ether does perhaps describe its behaviour.
And I think in the case of the rotational curves of galllaxies their motion is consistent with an external pressure as oppossed to an internal attraction...and I dont suggest that GR uses the concept of attraction or force from my humble understanding... I am confident that it does not need a force...we have a bending of space time and I admit that I really dont know what that means or how that term describes the behaviour of the non existent ether.
But happily I know I am right☺ about the dark matter problem and that dark matter will go away when they realise there is something realistic in my approach and I am entirely confident that if GR was applied correctly it will support my conclusion. The idea merely awaits correct application of the geometry.
So I must wait till the world realises that I am right☺
Now the reason I mention this at all is to remind both you and me about the virtue of being able to think and not to let thoughts be your master...and those words come from writttings of a man more respected than me..."If" by Kippling ...a list of acceptable behaviours he considers virtuious and which if you exhibit enables him to pronounce that...you are a man my Son or similar....so although a message to his son and presumably, not withstanding publication, confidental, I tend to take the advice as if it were meant for me.
I still prefer the steady state model not only for the reason it side steps a point of creation but more so because thinking about it that way requires no effort ...it was like that when I got here...most satisfactory.
Alex