Could aliens harness stars to keep ahead of expanding universe?

phys.org ^ | June 20, 2018 | by Bob Yirka

[NorthMountain]

Only a ‘Q’ could move stars around.

The Lensmen moved planets around ... their method wouldn't work with stars.

[WMarshal]

I have entertained ideas that our universe is being ripped apart by bigger, older objects that are so old that they have gone cold and radiate nothing but gravity. Our universe could be like like an explosion in vacuum where, after the initial violence and heat, continues to expand faster to reach equilibrium due to the gravitational pull to fill a much larger reality than our observable universe. I suspect that “dark matter” is a flawed theory that will be disproved.

[Mastador1]

This would make for some interesting Science Fiction.

I thought it was science fiction?

[JimRed]

Hmmm, could that be why expansion rate is increasing?

(singing) There's a warm wind blowin' the stars around
and I'd really love to see you tonight...

[ETL]

[WMarshal]

“Aliens might be able to do it, but liberals would never go for us doing it.”

Too true. Liberals think that every change to the environment by man is unnatural therefor evil. A large percentage of those who worship the earth think that man should be reduced to a hairless, naked ape that eats only leaves and berries while worshiping trees trees.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Here Kripke explains it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-Ivm9MhYs

[MHGinTN]

Buckaroo Banzai answered that ...

[minnesota_bound]

#37 It looks like we are just flotsam in the universe.
I think we are in a drop of liquid on a microscope slide in an alien laboratory.
Currently expanding but we will start to dry up then the universe will collapse....

[Slyfox]

Those aliens would have to be HUGE.

There was a Star Trek episode about that planet where Greek gods went to and they had incredible powers that included growing to huge heights when they got mad.

They might be able to do it.

Yep, some made up gods, on a made up planet, on a made up TV show could do it.

[BlueLancer]

[Red Badger]

Those aliens would have to be HUGE.

Not really. Guild Navigators could fold space and move the stars instantly. Gonna need a lot of Spice, though...............

[MHGinTN]

Gravity decreases by the square of the distance e between ... If you were correct, such ‘old objects’ would be ripping things apart at the edges, and astronomers aren’t observing that.

[MHGinTN]

Use a handkerchief, Morpheus.

[Pontiac]

You covered my thoughts on the article quite well.

Glad I resisted the urge to jump right in and post them.

Repetition can be so redundant don’t you agree.

[SJSAMPLE]

Forbidden Planet.
Loved the sets and the animation plates used to convey the vastness of the underground structures and energy sources.

[TheNext]

The Dyson Sphere is bogus.

Just build fusion energy gadgets. They are modular. A sun is not.

[Hugh the Scot]

Except that there are no aliens...

[Red Badger]

Then I guess we’ll just have to do the job ourselves....................

[plain talk]

Yeah I agree that repetition can be so redundant. I see what you did there. :-)