Buz writes:
Relative to everything from the present BBT to what drives the expansion.
No, none of our current models fo our universe are affected by this single movement of a cluster of galaxies. It simply means that some
thing with enough mass to have a strong enough gravitational pull, is causing them to move.
the observed expansion may perhaps be due to gravitational pull from bodies significantly greater than what we are able to observe.
Our universes' expantion is due to the inflationary period moments after the BB, this is not related to our expantion. The expantion in our universe is uniform, and everywhere we look, this movement is only of 1 super cluster.
What interested me also was the point that due to the velocity of light, we may not have any empirical method of determining the age of the universe which perhaps might lend some support to my eternal universe position.
The explanation the
Fox article gave about the SoL and the age of our universe was a very layman brush through of it. The age of our universe is very well calculated by none other than your favorite theory
General Relativity. Our universe from the BB to now is 13.7Byo, that takes us back to T=O.
I didn't get that notion from it at all.
Then you did not read the link I provided nor the quote, here I'll re-quote the specifics,
quote:
The sole possible explanation Kashlinsky offers is that there might be a large, very bulky neighboring part of the universe which is so far away we cannot see it. It could be, if inflationary theories are correct, a twin universe that inflated less evenly than our own did soon after the Big Bang.
*Bold for emphasis.
Imo, the notion of multi-universes is a misnomer in that even if there are scattered huge areas of matter/mass in the universe they would all come under the meaning of universe. Again, that's just my opinion.
Your notion for a
multiverse is incorrect. It would
not be
scattered mass, it would be a
multiverse system from, what M-Theory calls, a Membrane.
M-theory - Wikipedia
From wiki,
quote:
In theoretical physics, M-theory is a mathematical proposal that unifies the five ten-dimensional superstring theories as limits of a single 11-dimensional theory. Though a full description of the theory is not yet known, the low-energy dynamics are known to be supergravity interacting with 2- and 5-dimensional membranes. This theory is the unique supersymmetric theory in eleven dimensions, with its low-energy matter content and interactions fully determined.
But honestly this is nowhere near my area of understanding yet, perhaps
cavediver or
son goku can clue both of us in on their opinion of the matter. Howver, from what I do understand, a multiverse system would have seperate universes with different laws of physics.
Perhaps that would lend support to a flat space POV.
If space where flat planets would smash into the Sun.
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