hmmph
Tuesday, April 30th, 2002What irritates me about this article is that I've been saying this for years. As I'm no rocket scientist, it stands to reason that a lot of people have been saying it for years, in which case this hypothesis is far from "mind bending."
Imagine a rubber sheet stretched out in such a way that its surface has just the right amount of flexibility. An object placed in the rubber sheet will create an indentation. This is the standard analogy to explain the effect of gravitation the "fabric" of space.
Now imagine a large marble placed in the middle of the sheet. A bunch of marbles are fired toward the large marble. When they strike the central marble, there is an equal and opposite reaction; they expand outward. Eventually they hit a critical point where they don't have enough energy to resist the rubber sheet's pull towards the original large marble. At this point, however, they have expanded far enough that they roll back with the same amount of energy possessed to begin with. So they strike the central marble and expand again. This occurs over and over — striking, expanding, collapsing, striking. This is how I conceive of the universe working. Matter reaches a critical point of expansion, recedes to the original point of singularity, then reaches a critical point of compression and expands outward again. I could go on about this, but then you'd realize how much of a pseudo-scientific loon I am.
