John, Below is your original posting of the idea in the thread "Conjecture: dark matter and the red shift". Not clear what article just prior triggered it.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:11:20 -0700 From: John Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Conjecture: dark matter and the red shift. Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 14:09:02 -0500 Organization: Austin Instruments, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mx1.eskimo.com id MAA23123 Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/50774 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suppose for a moment that our universe is merely a bubble surrounded by an infinite expanse of infinitely dense, infinitely energetic Universe. For want of a better analogy, a void in a block of Swiss cheese. When our universe was formed and the void appeared, some of the material from the Universe outgassed into the void and eventually became the matter of which everything in our universe is composed. However, since the beginning of the formation of the void, the gravitational force of the Universe has been attracting matter back to itself. Because of the inverse square law on our side of the void wall, the closer the matter gets to the void's wall the more it is attracted, the greater its velocity becomes, and the greater the red shift becomes the farther out we look. If the velocity becomes luminal, then its mass becomes infinite, it leaves our local universe and rejoins the infinite Universe. So, if this conjecture was true it would explain the reason for the increasing red shift with distance, the discrepancy between how much matter should be here and how much there is, and the reason for the horizon of the universe. It would also settle the question of whether we have an open or a closed universe. Interestingly, it would bring up the question of whether or not the Swiss cheese was really a black hole! Comments, please? -- John Fields - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Regards, Horace Heffner
