Thanks, interesting article. Would seem to explain a lot of what we see. One thing I am sure of is that reality is far more interesting than what we can imagine. Bob -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 1:08 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Privatization (Was: SpaceX ?Secret? Payload) That's what the eminent physicist Roger Penrose, a friend of Stephen Hawking, seems to think. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/science/space/14cosmic.html -- Thanks, Joe --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Robert Taylor <robtaylorslc@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Robert Taylor <robtaylorslc@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Privatization (Was: SpaceX ?Secret? Payload) To: "'Utah Astronomy'" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 1:02 PM WHAT IF: What if the Big Bang did not occur in an empty or non-existent Universe but in an old collapsing universe that was consolidating its black holes into a singularity of incredible gravity but before total collapse was finished the BANG occurred mixing mostly newly (re)formed and some old material in a newly forming universe?
Yes what I'm proposing is a universe that repeats the cycle of Bang and collapse over and over. The energy that is propelling our universe apart at ever greater speeds may eventually dissipate and a slow collapse will begin, starting the cycle over again, however the collapse does not need to be complete, maybe a 90% collapse, for the new Universe to begin again.
Just a thought.
Bob