Universe in a bubble

Aeon ^ | 10/5/17 | J Richard Gott

[LibWhacker]

Head's spinning after this one. So I don't know if I could answer any of your questions. Maybe after I read it a few more times, I'll have an iota of understanding.

If you understand, please, add your insights, thank you!

[exnavy]

Hmmmm, the “big bang”, that is what i get when i pull the trigger on my big Colt revolver.

[dp0622]

Are you nuts?! :)

I love this stuff but I am at work so I can’t fully read it. Hopefully I will hit you up with questions later

[nicepaco]

Whew! I finished it!

Maybe. Thanks for posting this negatively expanding ponderous thing.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Interesting but meaningless. There is no meaning in the ravings of cosmologists because they are fixated on ‘how’ and ‘when’ and not the meaningful question of ‘why’. They avoid why because it has implications that they don’t wish to entertain.

[nicepaco]

Why?

Just make something up if it makes you feel better.

How is difficult enough without why. Though I would like to know a motive in Las Vegas.

[Billthedrill]

Though I would like to know a motive in Las Vegas.

That's a rather dark matter.

Sorry.

[nicepaco]

Thanks Billthedrill. Please tell us if you find it.

[MNDude]

Me not understand.

[zeestephen]

Thanks for posting.

A long and difficult essay, but well worth the time and effort.

[shibumi]

"That's a rather dark matter."

I see what you did there.

[zeestephen]

I forgot to mention that this is the first explanation of the Big Bang that makes sense to me.

[PIF]

And just to complicate matters further ... everything including the bubble universes are heading to the same spot ... the Great Attractor. So eventually all will meet up and what happens then?

[trebb]

If the "bubbles" are ever-expanding, as is the "bubble" they are in, are they really bubbles or just fringes of space/time/matter where the expansion has already reached?

Small grasp of the concept - perhaps the word "bubble" is just a way to describe something in a more visual manner.

[Red Badger]

7 x 10-30 grammes per cubic cm

That's pretty light........................

[Red Badger]

They all collide into a small, small, very small point, then the process starts all over again........................

[tet68]

When Hubble’s observations showed conclusively that the Universe was expanding, Einstein abandoned the cosmological constant

Einstein was still alive when Hubble was fixed?
Hubble was flown in 1955?

[onedoug]

Very good science writing, which is so notoriously difficult.

I think scientists would be very interested in the “why” if they could get to that point. Unfortunately for them, right now, only God knows.

Thanks for posting!

[PIF]

The Great Attractor already has more mass then the rest of the Universe combined. Why wait?