OK, you are invoking the asymptotic aspect of math. But I am not sure the cosmos needs to obey arithmetic, to function? But, please continue on topic. I recuse myself on this.
-----Original Message----- From: Edgar L. Owen <edgaro...@att.net> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jan 20, 2014 2:21 pm Subject: Re: A theory of dark matter... Spud, I don't follow your argument, since the actual impact of dark matter is clearly real and measurable. But the universe cannot be infinite since nothing actual can be infinite since infinity is not an actual number but the result of a never ending process (keep adding forever) which could never be realized. Edgar On Monday, January 20, 2014 1:09:58 PM UTC-5, spudb...@aol.com wrote: To better ascertain what dark matter is, you may need to give us a clue on your view on the volume of the cosmos. As in, just the Hubble Volume, 42 billion light years, 80 billion light years (both estimates have been given) or infinite? If it is infinite I guess that it will impact your theory, at least for gravatic influences. An infinite expanse would stretch whatever dark matter's impact on the 10^80 particle that we guess is normal matter, to zed. -----Original Message----- From: Edgar L. Owen <edga...@att.net> To: everything-list <everyth...@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:01 am Subject: A theory of dark matter... All, Here's one more theory from the many in my book on Reality: As Misner, Thorne and Wheeler note briefly in their book on Gravitation, INTERgalactic space is continually expanding with the Hubble expansion, however INTRAgalactic space is NOT expanding because it is gravitationally bound. Now the obvious effect of this (as I'm the first to have pointed out so far as I know) is that space will necessarily be warped at the boundaries of galaxies, and as is well know from GR any curvature of space produces gravitational effects, and of course dark matter halos around the EDGES of galaxies were invented to explain the otherwise unexplained extra gravitational effects on the rotation of galaxies. Thus, this simple effect of space warps around the boundaries of galaxies caused by the Hubble expansion may be the explanation for the dark matter effect. It may or may not be the cause of the entire effect, but it certainly must be having SOME effect, and over the lifetime of the universe one would expect that warping effect to be quite large. And there is nothing to prevent these warps, once they are created, to have a life and movement of their own, as we now know that dark matter is not just concentrated around galactic halos but may indicate where they used to be.... I'd be interested to see if anyone else sees how this effect might explain dark matter... Edgar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
