teranko Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 Studying other theory's is fine but to insist that people align themselves with a theory that you believe in prior to posting is contrary to the science doctrine. If everyone always did what you suggest we'd still be thinking the sun revolves around the earth. I for one believe that the Big Bang was not a singular event and that matter continues to flood into our universe driving inflation.
teranko Posted July 1, 2009 Author Posted July 1, 2009 My point was it is difficult to think outside the box when you're standing inside of it....
Martin Posted July 1, 2009 Posted July 1, 2009 You need to supply a math model according to which matter flooding into our region of space would cause expansion. According to the theory of gravity (Gen Rel) that we are using nowadays, incoming matter would slow expansion, increase density, and tend to cause collapse---the big crunch scenario. So you need to give us a theory like GR, which explains gravity---how the planets orbit the sun etc---and which explains the geometry we observe (expansion, curvature etc.)---but is different from the theory of gravity/geometry we have now in the sense that matter flooding in would cause expansion. In this kind of discussion you are encouraged to believe whatever you like about the universe, but discussion cannot be based on ignorance of the standard model. You do not have to believe standard physical theory, standard gravity, cosmology etc---but you have to start by being familiar with the commonly accepted ideas as a point of departure. So if you want to challenge and reform cosmology, for example, you must first make yourself familiar with it. That is our common starting point.
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