On Feb 20, 4:30 am, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably. From a friend of mine on Facebook: "Is it possible that the notion > of the universe expanding is really an illusion based on the fact that WE are > shrinking?" > > Perhaps this idea might be used as a "stepping-stone" to a better idea. Go > on, have a laugh if you want but tell me why this cannot be in any sense > possible. Conversely, tell me why it might be possible if you think so. > > Kim Jones
I think that is not only possible, but I think that it has to be the case. I call my cosmological origin myth 'The Big Diffraction' rather than the Big Bang for just that reason. If spacetime is created by the expansion of the primordial singularity, then that means that there was neither space nor time before the moment of 'expansion'. Therefore we, and everything in the entire universe was, is, and always will be physically within the event horizon of the big bang. It cannot be expanding outside of its own event horizon, so it is space and time which are surging inward, or within-ward. We see it as an expansion and forward arrow of time, but that would make sense since that would be the perspective of a subjective experience within the spacetime implosion. Objectively, it is the ratio between mass and space in the universe which is shrinking as more space is created through the passage of more time (or time is created through the multiplication of space). The shrinking mass ratio can also be thought of as energy's entropic exhaust. Events/ experiences build significance (meaning, sequence) and kick out entropy (space). This is what the universe is; a testing ground for significance vehicles. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
