On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:15 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
A new cosmology successfully explains the accelerating expansion of the > universe without dark energy; but only if the universe has no beginning and > no end. > > > http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419984/big-bang-abandoned-in-new-model-of-the-universe/ > > As one of the few astrophysical events that most people are familiar with, > the Big Bang has a special place in our culture. And while there is > scientific consensus that it is the best explanation for the origin of the > Universe, the debate is far from closed. However, it’s hard to find > alternative models of the Universe without a beginning that are genuinely > compelling. > > That could change now with the fascinating work of Wun-Yi Shu at the > National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Shu has developed an innovative > new description of the Universe in which the roles of time space and mass > are related in new kind of relativity. > > Shu’s idea is that time and space are not independent entities but can be > converted back and forth between each other. In his formulation of the > geometry of spacetime, the speed of light is simply the conversion factor > between the two. Similarly, mass and length are interchangeable in a > relationship in which the conversion factor depends on both the > gravitational constant G and the speed of light, neither of which need be > constant. > I really like where this is going. I think we have at least one resident astrophysicist. It would be nice to have a sense of what to look out for in order to falsify it as well as how "out-there" it seems to people working in the field. Eric
