Universe doesn't exist. "Universe" is just an idea in consciousness.
On Monday, 23 December 2024 at 16:30:04 UTC+2 John Clark wrote: > *There is a radical new paper in the December 19 issue of the journal > Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that claims Dark Energy > does not exist and the universe is not accelerating, I don't know if it's > right or not but it's certainly interesting. It says recent observation > show that the universe is lumpier than previously thought, and clocks run > slower in a gravitational field, so a clock in the Milky Way, where there's > a lot of matter nearby and thus in a strong gravitational field, would run > about 35% slower than a clock that was in one of the larger Cosmic Voids > where there is little matter nearby and therefore is in a weak > gravitational field. Therefore for us in the Milky Way it would look like > the void was getting larger at an accelerating rate.* > *David Wiltshire, the leader of the study said "Our findings show that we > do not need dark energy to explain why the universe appears to expand at an > accelerating rate. Dark energy is a misidentification of variations in the > kinetic energy of expansion, which is not uniform in a universe as lumpy as > the one we actually live in." * > > *They call their new idea "the timescape framework", and the paper > concludes with this:* > > * "The timescape framework is consistent with new analysis of void > statistics in numerical relativity simulations using the full Einstein > equations. These are consistent with an emerging kinetic spatial curvature > of voids on small scales. Much remains to be done in calibrating the dark > matter fraction, primordial sound speed and the BAO [Baryon Acoustic > Oscillations] scale. However, new results are likely to provide a robust > framework for this. Our results imply profound consequences for cosmology > and astrophysics. Indeed, a net preference for the timescape cosmology over > the standard FLRW [Friedmann-Lemaıtre-Robertson-Walker metric] cosmologies > may point to a need for revision of the foundations of theoretical > cosmology, both ontologically and epistemologically, to better understand > inhomogeneities and their backreaction on the average evolution of the > Universe."* > > > *Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models > <https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647?login=false>* > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > pct > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7ab57ba3-c37c-4cdb-8d44-45648756b092n%40googlegroups.com.
